Zechariah 7:4

Contemporary English Version

It was then that the Lord All-Powerful told me to say to everyone in the country, including the priests: For seventy years you have gone without eating during the fifth and seventh months of the year. But did you really do it for me?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then the word of the Lord of Armies came to me:

Hebrew Names Version
Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying,

King James Version (1611)
Then came the word of the Lord of hosts vnto me, saying,

King James Version
Then came the word of the Lord of hosts unto me, saying,

English Standard Version
Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me:

New American Standard Bible
Then the word of the LORD of armies came to me, saying,

New Century Version
The Lord All-Powerful spoke his word to me, saying,

Amplified Bible
Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me (Zechariah), saying,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then came the word of the Lord of hostes vnto me, saying,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then the word of Yahweh of hosts came to me, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying,

Complete Jewish Bible
It was then that this message came to me from Adonai -Tzva'ot:

Darby Translation
And the word of Jehovah of hosts came unto me, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
I received this message from the Lord All-Powerful:

George Lamsa Translation
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Good News Translation
This is the message of the Lord that came to me.

Lexham English Bible
And the word of Yahweh of hosts came to me, saying,

Literal Translation
The Word of Jehovah of Hosts was to me, saying,

American Standard Version
Then came the word of Jehovah of hosts unto me, saying,

Bible in Basic English
Then the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then came the worde of the Lorde of hoastes vnto me, saying:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying,

English Revised Version
Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,

World English Bible
Then the word of Yahweh of Hosts came to me, saying,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the word of the Lord was maad to me,

Update Bible Version
Then the word of Yahweh of hosts came to me, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
Then came the word of the LORD of hosts to me, saying,

New English Translation
The word of the Lord who rules over all then came to me,

New King James Version
Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

New Living Translation
The Lord of Heaven's Armies sent me this message in reply:

New Life Bible
Then the Word of the Lord of All came to me saying,

New Revised Standard
Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then came the word of Yahweh of hosts unto me, saying:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying:

Revised Standard Version
Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me;

Young's Literal Translation
And there is a word of Jehovah of Hosts unto me, saying:

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then came the worde of the LORDE of hoostes vnto me, sayenge:

THE MESSAGE
God -of-the-Angel-Armies gave me this Message for them, for all the people and for the priests: "When you held days of fasting every fifth and seventh month all these seventy years, were you doing it for me? And when you held feasts, was that for me? Hardly. You're interested in religion, I'm interested in people.

Contextual Overview

¹ On the fourth day of Chislev, the ninth month of the fourth year that Darius was king of Persia, the Lord again spoke to me. ²It happened after the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer with Regem-Melech and his men to ask the priests in the Lord 's temple and the prophets to pray for them. So they prayed, "Should we mourn and go without eating during the fifth month, as we have done for many years?" ⁴It was then that the Lord All-Powerful told me to say to everyone in the country, including the priests: For seventy years you have gone without eating during the fifth and seventh months of the year. But did you really do it for me? ⁶ And when you eat and drink, isn't it for your own enjoyment? ⁷ My message today is the same one I commanded the earlier prophets to speak to Jerusalem and its villages when they were prosperous, and when all of Judah, including the Southern Desert and the hill country, was filled with people.

Bible Verse Review
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Lord of hosts: Isaiah 10:16

Cross-References

Genesis 2:5
no grass or plants were growing anywhere. God had not yet sent any rain, and there was no one to work the land.

Genesis 6:3
Then the Lord said, "I won't let my life-giving breath remain in anyone forever. No one will live for more than one hundred twenty years."

Genesis 6:7
and he said, "I'll destroy every living creature on earth! I'll wipe out people, animals, birds, and reptiles. I'm sorry I ever made them."

Genesis 6:13
So he told Noah: Cruelty and violence have spread everywhere. Now I'm going to destroy the whole earth and all its people.

Genesis 6:17
I'm going to send a flood that will destroy everything that breathes! Nothing will be left alive.

Genesis 7:10
Seven days later a flood began to cover the earth.

Genesis 7:11
Noah was six hundred years old when the water under the earth started gushing out everywhere. The sky opened like windows, and rain poured down for forty days and nights. All this began on the seventeenth day of the second month of the year.

Genesis 7:17
For forty days the rain poured down without stopping. And the water became deeper and deeper, until the boat started floating high above the ground.

Genesis 7:21
Not a bird, animal, reptile, or human was left alive anywhere on earth.

Genesis 8:10
Seven days later Noah sent the dove out again.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then came the word of the Lord of hosts unto me, saying. Upon the sending of this embassy, and upon putting this question.