Zechariah 7:4

4 It was then that this message came to me from ADONAI-Tzva'ot:

Zechariah 7:4 Meaning and Commentary

Zechariah 7:4

Then came the word of the Lord of hosts unto me, saying.
] Upon the sending of this embassy, and upon putting this question.

Zechariah 7:4 In-Context

2 He sent Sar'etzer and Regem-Melekh with his men to Beit-El in order to ask ADONAI's favor,

3 as they inquired of the cohanim of the house of ADONAI-Tzva'ot and the prophets, "Should we go into mourning and abstain from pleasure during the fifth month, as we have been doing for all these years?"

4 It was then that this message came to me from ADONAI-Tzva'ot:

5 "Speak to all the people of the land and to the cohanim. Tell them, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months throughout these seventy years, were you really fasting for me? Was it for me?

6 Rather, when you eat and drink, it's just to please yourselves, isn't it?