Zechariah 7:3-10

3by asking the priests of the house of the Lord Almighty and the prophets, “Should I mourn and fast in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”

4Then 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?

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

7Are 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?’ ”

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

9“This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another.

10Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’