Zechariah 7:3-10

3and to ask the priests who were in the house of the Lord of hosts, and the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month and fast as I have done for so many years?”

4Then the word of the Lord of hosts 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 during those seventy years, did you really fast for Me—for Me?

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

7Should you not have obeyed the words which the Lord proclaimed through the former prophets when Jerusalem and the cities around it were inhabited and prosperous, and the South and the Lowland were inhabited?’ ”

8Then the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying,

9“Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘Execute true justice, Show mercy and compassion Everyone to his brother.

10Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, The alien or the poor. Let none of you plan evil in his heart Against his brother.’