Zechariah 7:4-6

A Call for Justice and Mercy

⁴ Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me: ⁵ "Say to all the people of the land and the priests, When you fasted and mourned in _u the fifth month and in _v the seventh, for these _w seventy years, _x was it _x for me that you fasted? ⁶ _y And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

1. Cross References
   Zechariah 7:3
   Saying to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and the prophets, "Should I weep and abstain in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?
   
2. Cross References
   2 Kings 25:25
   But in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down Gedaliah and put him to death along with the Jews and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.
   
3. Cross References
   Zechariah 1:12
   Then the angel of the Lord said, 'O Lord of hosts, how long will you have no mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which you have been angry these seventy years?
   
4. Cross References
   Isaiah 58:4 - 5
   Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with a wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high.
   
5. Cross References
   Isaiah 58:4 - 5
   Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with a wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high.
   
6. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 11:20 - 21
   When you come together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat.