5`Speak unto all the people of the land, and unto the priests, saying:
6When 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?
7`Are not [these] the words that Jehovah proclaimed by the hand of the former prophets, in Jerusalem`s being inhabited, and [in] safety, and its cities round about it, and the south and the plain -- abiding?`
8And there is a word of Jehovah unto Zechariah, saying:
9`Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: True judgment judge ye, And kindness and mercy do one with another.
10And widow, and fatherless, Sojourner, and poor, ye do not oppress, And the calamity of one another ye do not devise in your heart.
11And they refuse to attend, And they give a refractory shoulder, And their ears have made heavy against hearing.
