Zechariah 7:6

6 And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?

Zechariah 7:6 in Other Translations

6 And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

6 And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

6 And even now in your holy festivals, aren’t you eating and drinking just to please yourselves?

6 And when you held feasts, was that for me? Hardly. You're interested in religion, I'm interested in people.

6 When you eat and drink, don't you eat and drink [simply] 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 Almighty came to me:

5 “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted?

6 And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?

7 Are these not the words the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were at rest and prosperous, and the Negev and the western foothills were settled?’ ”

8 And the word of the LORD came again to Zechariah:

Cross References

• 1. S Isaiah 43:23