And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
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Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?
When ye fasted with mourning in the fifth and in the seventh months --even these seventy years--did ye keep the fast to Me--Me? And when ye eat, and when ye drink, is it not ye who are eating, and ye who are drinking?
And when ye ate, and when ye drank, was it not you that were eating and drinking?
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentZechariah — Contemporary of Haggai — but longer, stranger, and more explicitly Messianic. Eight night visions, a royal-priestly crown, Zion's king riding on a donkey, and the pierced one they shall look upon.
- Author
- Zechariah son of Berechiah, son of Iddo (1:1) — priest and prophet of the return
- Date
- Began 520 BC, contemporary with Haggai; later oracles (ch. 9–14) may date to the later 5th c. BC