^{5 Ref} "Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?

^{6 Ref} When you eat, and when you drink, don't you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

^{7 Ref} Aren't these the words which Yahweh proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?'"