Zechariah 7:6

6 'When you eat and drink, do you not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for yourselves?

Zechariah 7:6 Meaning and Commentary

Zechariah 7:6

And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink
Either at common meals, or at their festivals: did not ye eat [for yourselves], and drink [for yourselves]?
merely and only for their own refreshment and pleasure, and not for the glory of God; though that ought to be the principal end in eating and drinking, ( 1 Corinthians 10:31 ) .

Zechariah 7:6 In-Context

4 Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

5 "Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months these seventy years, was it actually for Me that you fasted?

6 'When you eat and drink, do you not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for yourselves?

7 'Are not these the words which the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous along with its cities around it, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?' "

8 Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah saying,

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "is it not you who eat and you who drink"