5. `Speak unto all the people of the land, and unto the priests, saying:
6. 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?
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?'
8. And 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.