CJB 4 It was then that this message came to me from ADONAI-Tzva'ot: NIV 4 Then the word of the LORD Almighty came to me: CJB 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? NIV 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? CJB 6 Rather, when you eat and drink, it's just to please yourselves, isn't it? NIV 6 And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves? CJB 7 Isn't this just what ADONAI proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Yerushalayim was inhabited and prosperous, as were the cities around her; and the Negev and the Sh'felah were inhabited?'" NIV 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?’ ”
NIV 4 Then the word of the LORD Almighty came to me: NIV 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? NIV 6 And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves? NIV 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?’ ”