5 “You are to speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, ‘When y’all fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did y’all really fast and fast for me?
5 Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?
5 Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months, even those seventy years you were in exile, was it for Me that you fasted, for Me?
5 Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, even these seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?
5 Say to all the land’s people and to the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth month and the seventh month for these past seventy years, did you fast for me?
5 Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: Although you may have fasted and mourned in the fifth and the seventh month for these seventy years, did you indeed keep a fast unto me?
Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan the son of Kareah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.
But in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal offspring came, and ten men with him, and struck Gedaliah so that he died, with the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah.
You have not brought me any of your sheep for burnt offerings, neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense.
‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you haven’t seen it? Why have we humbled our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Look, on the day when y’all fast, y’all find pleasure, and oppress all y’all’s laborers.
For YHWH says, “After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit y’all and fulfill my good word toward y’all, to return y’all to this place.
Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem.
in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which YHWH’s word came to Jeremiah the prophet for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.
Then the Angel of YHWH replied, “O YHWH Almighty, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?”
and to speak to the priests of the house of YHWH Almighty and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”
YHWH Almighty says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months will become feasts of joy, gladness, and cheer for the house of Judah. Therefore y’all must love truth and peace.”
“Moreover, when y’all fast, don’t be like the hypocrites with sullen faces. For they disfigure their faces so that humans will notice them fasting. Truly I tell y’all, they have received their reward.
Therefore, when y’all give to the poor, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets to be honored by humans. Truly I tell y’all, they have received their reward.
“When y’all pray, y’all are not to be like the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, so that they may be seen by humans. Truly, I tell y’all, they have received their reward.