Zechariah 7:6

Good News Translation

And when they ate and drank, it was for their own satisfaction."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When you eat and drink, don’t you eat and drink simply for yourselves?

Hebrew Names Version
When you eat, and when you drink, don't you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

King James Version (1611)
And when ye did eat, and when ye did drinke, did not ye eat for your selues, and drinke for your selues?

King James Version
And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

English Standard Version
And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

New American Standard Bible
'And when you eat and drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

New Century Version
And when you ate and drank, it was really for yourselves.

Amplified Bible
'When you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for yourselves [to satisfy your own needs]?

Geneva Bible (1587)
And when ye did eate, and when ye did drinke, did ye not eate for your selues, and drinke for your selues?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'When you eat and drink, do you not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for yourselves?

Legacy Standard Bible
And when you eat and when you drink, are you not eating for yourselves and are you not drinking for yourselves?

Berean Standard Bible
And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?

Contemporary English Version
And when you eat and drink, isn't it for your own enjoyment?

Complete Jewish Bible
Rather, when you eat and drink, it's just to please yourselves, isn't it?

Darby Translation
And when ye ate, and when ye drank, was it not you that were eating and drinking?

Easy-to-Read Version
And when you ate and drank, was that for me? No, it was for your own good.

George Lamsa Translation
And when you did eat and when you did drink, did you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

Lexham English Bible
And when you eat and drink, are you not eating and drinking for yourselves?

Literal Translation
And when you ate, and when you drank, was it not for those eating, and for those drinking?

American Standard Version
And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

Bible in Basic English
And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when ye eat, and when ye drink, are ye not they that eat, and they that drink?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
When ye did eate also & drincke, did ye not eate & drincke for your owne selues?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if ye eat or drink, do ye not eat and drink for yourselves?

English Revised Version
And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

World English Bible
When you eat, and when you drink, don't you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne ye eeten, and drunken, whether ye eten not to you, and drunken not to you silf?

Update Bible Version
And when you eat, and when you drink, don't you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

Webster's Bible Translation
And when ye ate, and when ye drank, did ye not eat [for yourselves], and drink [for yourselves]?

New English Translation
And now when you eat and drink, are you not doing so for yourselves?'"

New King James Version
When you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink for yourselves?

New Living Translation
And even now in your holy festivals, aren't you eating and drinking just to please yourselves?

New Life Bible
When you eat and drink, do you not eat and drink for yourselves?

New Revised Standard
And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink only for yourselves?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when ye used to eat and when ye used to drink, was it not, of your own accord, ye did eat, and, of your own accord, ye did drink?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when you did eat and drink, did you not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

Revised Standard Version
And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

Young's Literal Translation
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?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
When ye ate also and dronke, dyd ye not eate and drinke for youre owne selues?

Contextual Overview

¹ In the fourth year that Darius was emperor, on the fourth day of the ninth month (the month of Kislev), the Lord gave me a message. ² The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and their men to the Temple of the Lord Almighty to pray for the Lord 's blessing ³ and to ask the priests and the prophets this question: "Should we continue to mourn because of the destruction of the Temple, by fasting in the fifth month as we have done for so many years now?" ⁴ This is the message of the Lord that came to me. ⁵ He said, "Tell the people of the land and the priests that when they fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months during these seventy years, it was not in honor of me. ⁶ And when they ate and drank, it was for their own satisfaction." ⁷ This is what the Lord said through the earlier prophets at the time when Jerusalem was prosperous and filled with people and when there were many people living not only in the towns around the city but also in the southern region and in the western foothills.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

did not ye eat for: or, be not ye they that did eat for, etc. Deuteronomy 12:7, Deuteronomy 14:26, 1 Samuel 16:7, 1 Chronicles 29:22, Jeremiah 17:9, Jeremiah 17:10, Hosea 8:13, Hosea 9:4, 1 Corinthians 10:31, 1 Corinthians 11:20, 1 Corinthians 11:21, 1 Corinthians 11:26-29, Colossians 3:17

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 20:24 - the king Isaiah 43:23 - honoured Jeremiah 36:9 - they Hosea 10:1 - an empty vine Zechariah 7:5 - did Zechariah 14:21 - every Malachi 1:13 - should I accept Luke 5:33 - Why Luke 18:12 - fast Romans 14:6 - regardeth it Titus 1:15 - but

Cross-References

Genesis 5:32
After Noah was 500 years old, he had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 8:13
When Noah was 601 years old, on the first day of the first month, the water was gone. Noah removed the covering of the boat, looked around, and saw that the ground was getting dry.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink,.... Either at common meals, or at their festivals:

did not ye eat [for yourselves], and drink [for yourselves]? merely and only for their own refreshment and pleasure, and not for the glory of God; though that ought to be the principal end in eating and drinking, 1 Corinthians 10:31.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And when ye eat and when ye drink, is it not ye who eat and ye who drink? - Conversely now that, after your return, ye feast for joy, this is no religious act; ye have all the good of it, there is no thanksgiving to God. Contrary to the apostle’s saying, “Whether ye eat or drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the glow of God” 1 Corinthians 10:31. “He eateth and drinketh to himself, who receiveth the nourishments of the body, which are the common gifts of the Creator, without the needy. And anyone fasts to himself, if he doth not give to the poor what for the time he withdraweth from himself, but keepeth it to be thereafter offered to his appetite. Hence, it is said by Joel, sanctify a fast. For to ‘sanctify a fast’ is to show an abstinence worthy of God through other good deeds. Let anger cease, quarrels be hushed. For in vain is the flesh worn, if the mind is not refrained from evil pleasures, since the Lord says by the prophet, “Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure. Behold, ye fast for strife and debate ...” Isaiah 57:3-4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 7:6. And when ye did eat — They had not observed those fasts as they should have done. They deplored the loss of their temple, and its riches, &c., but they did not humble themselves because of those iniquities which had brought the displeasure of God upon them, their temple, and their city.