Zechariah 7:3

New American Bible - revised edition

and to ask the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts, and the prophets, “Must I weep and abstain in the fifth month as I have been doing these many years?”

Cross References

Ezra 3:10

While the builders were laying the foundation of the Lord’s temple, the priests in their vestments were stationed with trumpets and the Levites, sons of Asaph, with cymbals to praise the Lord in the manner laid down by David, king of Israel.

Ecclesiastes 3:4

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.

Hosea 4:6

My people are ruined for lack of knowledge! Since you have rejected knowledge, I will reject you from serving as my priest; Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

Joel 2:17

Between the porch and the altar let the priests weep, let the ministers of the Lord weep and say: “Spare your people, Lord! do not let your heritage become a disgrace, a byword among the nations! Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’” The Lord Relents.

Haggai 2:11

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Ask the priests for a ruling:

Zechariah 7:4

Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me:

Zechariah 7:5

Say to all the people of the land and to the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh month these seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted?

Zechariah 8:19

Thus says the Lord of hosts: The fast days of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become occasions of joy and gladness, and happy festivals for the house of Judah. So love faithfulness and peace!

Malachi 2:7

For a priest’s lips preserve knowledge, and instruction is to be sought from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 9:15

Jesus answered them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.

1 Corinthians 7:5

Do not deprive each other, except perhaps by mutual consent for a time, to be free for prayer, but then return to one another, so that Satan may not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

Deuteronomy 33:10

They teach your ordinances to Jacob, your law to Israel. They bring incense to your nostrils, and burnt offerings to your altar.