Zachariæ 7:3

Nova Vulgata

ut dicerent sacerdotibus domus Domini exercituum et prophetis loquentes: "Numquid flendum est mihi in quinto mense vel ieiunandum, sicut iam feci multis annis?".

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
ut dicerent sacerdotibus domus Domini exercituum, et prophetis, loquentes : Numquid flendum est mihi in quinto mense, vel sanctificare me debeo, sicut jam feci multis annis ?

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
ut dicerent sacerdotibus domus Domini exercituum, et prophetis, loquentes: Numquid flendum est mihi in quinto mense, vel sanctificare me debeo, sicut jam feci multis annis?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

speak: Deuteronomy 17:9-11, Deuteronomy 33:10, Ezekiel 44:23, Ezekiel 44:24, Hosea 4:6, Haggai 2:11, Malachi 2:7

Should: Zechariah 7:5, Nehemiah 8:9-11, Nehemiah 9:1-3, Ecclesiastes 3:4, Isaiah 22:12, Isaiah 22:13, Joel 2:17, Matthew 9:15, James 4:8-10

fifth: This was a fast for the burning of the temple, as that of the seventh month was for the death of Gedaliah; and seeing that the city and temple were in part rebuilt, they wished to know whether they should continue the observance of them. Zechariah 8:19, 2 Kings 25:8, 2 Kings 25:9, Jeremiah 52:12-14

separating: Zechariah 12:12-14, 1 Corinthians 7:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 19:15 - come not Exodus 33:4 - they mourned Numbers 29:7 - afflict 1 Samuel 21:4 - if the young Proverbs 18:1 - Through Joel 2:12 - with fasting Malachi 3:14 - and that Matthew 6:16 - be Matthew 20:12 - borne Luke 15:29 - Lo

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the Lord of hosts,.... That ministered in the sanctuary, as the Targum explains it, who offered sacrifices, c. and who were to be consulted in matters of religion, Malachi 2:7:

and to the prophets who were then in being, as Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi:

saying, Should I weep in the fifth month; which is the month Ab, and answers to July: now on the seventh day of this month, according to

2 Kings 25:8, the temple was burnt by the Chaldeans; and, according to Jeremiah 3:12, it was on the tenth of this month, which day was kept by the Jews as a day of fasting and humiliation, in commemoration of it; and by the Misnic doctors u afterwards was removed, and kept on the ninth day of the said month; but, seeing the temple was in great forwardness of being rebuilt, the question with those Jews was, whether they should continue any longer mourning and fasting on that account:

separating myself: that is, from eating and drinking, and not taking the lawful pleasures and recreations of life:

as I have done these so many years? for the space of seventy years, as in Zechariah 7:5.

u Misn. Taanith, c. 4. sect. 7, 8. T. Bab. Taanith, fol. 29. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself? - “In the fifth month,” from the seventh to the tenth day, Jerusalem was in flames, fired by Nebuchadnezzar. “He burnt the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem and every great man’s house he burnt with fire” .

Jerome: “Now since it is said that the temple is builded and we see that no cause of sorrow remaineth, answer, we pray, are we to do this or to change our sorrow into joy?”

Separating myself - This seems to be added, to intensify the fast which they had kept. The Nazarite was bound to “separate himself from wine and strong drink” Numbers 6:3, and so, they severed themselves to the Lord, and consecrated themselves to Him (Numbers 5:0. See the note at Amos 2:11). These had severed themselves from food, from things pleasant, from pleasure, from sin, it may be, for the day, but not abidingly: they had not given themselves to God.

As I have done these so many years - Literally, “how many.” As if, although they knew that they were seventy years, they could not count them.