Unto all the people — By their messengers. And seventh — For the murder of Gedaliah, slain by Ishmael. Even to me — You pleased yourselves in it, not me; you wept more for the inconveniences of the thing than the sinfulness of it.
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Zechariah 7:5
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?