- In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev.
- Now the town of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and their men to seek the favor of the LORD,
- speaking to the priests who belong to the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, "Shall I weep in the fifth month and abstain, as I have done these many years?"
- Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,
- "Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months these seventy years, was it actually for Me that you fasted?
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- 大利烏王第四年九月、就是基斯流月、初四日、耶和華的話臨到撒迦利亞。
- 那時伯特利人已經打發沙利色、和利堅米勒、並跟從他們的人、去懇求耶和華的恩、
- 並問萬軍之耶和華殿中的祭司、和先知說、我歷年以來、在五月間哭泣齋戒、現在還當這樣行麼。
- 萬軍之耶和華的話就臨到我說、
- 你要宣告國內的眾民、和祭司、說、你們這七十年在五月七月禁食悲哀、豈是絲毫向我禁食麼.
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