Zechariah 7:3-10

3speaking to the 1priests who belong to the house of the Lord of armies, and to the prophets, saying, “Shall I weep in the 2fifth month 3and fast, as I have done these many years?” 4Then the word of the Lord of armies 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 4these 5seventy years, was it actually for 6Me that you fasted? 6And when you eat and drink, 7do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves? 7Are these not the words which the Lord 8proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and 9carefree along with its cities around it, and the 1011Negev and the 12foothills were inhabited?’”

8Then the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying, 9“This is what the Lord of armies has said: ‘13Dispense true justice and practice 14kindness and compassion each to his brother; 10and 15do not oppress the widow or the 16orphan, the stranger or the poor; and do 17not devise evil in your hearts against one another.’