Zachariæ 7:5

Nova Vulgata

"Loquere ad omnem populum terrae et ad sacerdotes dicens: Cum ieiunaretis et plangeretis in quinto et septimo mense per hos septuaginta annos, numquid revera ieiunastis mihi?

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Loquere ad omnem populum terr�, et ad sacerdotes, dicens : Cum jejunaretis, et plangeretis in quinto et septimo per hos septuaginta annos, numquid jejunium jejunastis mihi ?

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Loquere ad omnem populum terr�, et ad sacerdotes, dicens: Cum jejunaretis, et plangeretis in quinto et septimo per hos septuaginta annos, numquid jejunium jejunastis mihi?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

When: Isaiah 58:5

seventh: Zechariah 8:19, 2 Kings 25:23, Jeremiah 41:1-4

seventy: From the eleventh year of Zedekiah to the fourth of Darius Hystapses are just seventy years. Zechariah 7:3, Zechariah 1:12, Jeremiah 25:11

did: Zechariah 7:6, Isaiah 1:11, Isaiah 1:12, Isaiah 58:4-6, Matthew 5:16-18, Matthew 6:2, Matthew 6:5, Matthew 6:16, Matthew 23:5, Romans 14:6-9, Romans 14:17, Romans 14:18, 1 Corinthians 10:31, 2 Corinthians 5:15, Colossians 3:23

Reciprocal: Exodus 33:4 - they mourned 2 Kings 25:25 - seventh Isaiah 43:23 - honoured Isaiah 58:3 - have we fasted Jeremiah 1:3 - in the fifth Jeremiah 12:11 - it mourneth Jeremiah 29:10 - after Jeremiah 36:9 - they Daniel 9:2 - to Jeremiah Hosea 7:14 - they have not Hosea 10:1 - an empty vine Joel 2:12 - with fasting Amos 5:25 - General Malachi 1:13 - should I accept Luke 14:12 - and a Luke 18:12 - fast 1 Corinthians 11:28 - let a Titus 1:15 - but

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Speak unto all the people of the land,.... Of Judea, who had sent these men on this errand, and whom they represented, and in whose name they spake:

and to the priests; who were consulted on this occasion:

saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth; on the seventh or tenth day of the fifth month Ab, on account of the temple being burnt by Nebuchadnezzar:

and seventh [month]; the month Tisri, which answers to September; on the third day of this month a fast was kept on account of the murder of Gedaliah, Jeremiah 41:1 though Kimchi says he was slain on the first day of the month; but, because that was a feast day, keeping a day for a fast on this occasion was fixed on the day following:

even those seventy years; of their captivity, during which they kept the above fasts. The Jews say w there was no fast of the congregation, or public fast, kept in Babylon, but on the ninth of Ab, or the fifth month only; and if so, other fasts here, and in Zechariah 8:19, must be private ones. These seventy years are to be reckoned from the nineteenth of Nebuchadnezzar, when the city was destroyed, to the second or fourth of Darius:

did ye at all fast unto me, [even] to me? the fast they kept was not according to the command of God, but an appointment of theirs; nor was it directed to his glory; nor was it any profit or advantage to him; and therefore it was nothing to him whether they fasted or not; see

Isaiah 58:3.

w T. Bab. Pesachim, fol. 54. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Speak unto all the people of the land - They of Bethel had spoken as one man, as Edom said to Israel, “Thou shalt not pass by me” Numbers 20:18; and “the men of Israel said to the Hivite; Perhaps thou dwellest in the midst of me, and how shall I make a league with thee?” Joshua 9:7. God gives the answer not to them only, but to all like-minded with them, “all the people of the land,” the whole population (in our language); as Jeremiah says, “ye and your fathers, your kings and your princes and all the people of the land” Jeremiah 44:21, and, “the scribe who mustered the people of the land.” Jeremiah 52:25.

When ye fasted and that, mourning - It was no mere abstinence from food (severe as the Jewish fasts were, one unbroken abstinence from evening to evening) but with real mourning, the word being used only of mourning for the dead (Genesis 23:2; Genesis 50:10; 1 Samuel 25:1; 1Sa 28:3; 2 Samuel 1:12; 2 Samuel 3:31; 2Sa 11:26; 1 Kings 13:29-30; 1 Kings 14:13, 1 Kings 14:18; Ecclesiastes 12:5; Jeremiah 16:4-6; Jeremiah 22:18; (twice); Jeremiah 25:33; Jeremiah 34:5; Ezekiel 24:16, Ezekiel 24:23; Zechariah 12:10, Zechariah 12:12), or, in a few instances, , for a very great public calamity; probably with beating on the breast.

In the seventh month - The murder of Gedaliah, “whom the king of Babylon made governor of the land,” completed the calamities of Jerusalem, in the voluntary, but prohibited exile to Egypt, for fear lest the murder should be avenged on them Jer. 41–43.

Did ye at all fast unto Me, Me? - God emphatically rejects such fasting as their’s had been, as something, unutterably alien from Him, “to Me, Me!” Yet the fasting and mourning had been real, but irreligious, like remorse for ill-deeds, which has self only for its ground. He prepares the way for His answer by correcting the error of the question. Osorius: “Ye fasted to yourselves, not to Me. For ye mourned your sorrows, not your misdeeds; and your public fast was undertaken, not for My glory, but out of feeling for your own grief. But nothing can be pleasing to God, which is not referred to His glory. But those things alone can be referred to His glory, which are done with righteousness and devotion.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 7:5. When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth - month] This they did in the remembrance of the burning of the temple, on the tenth day of that month; and on the seventh month, on the third of which month they observed a fast for the murder of Gedaliah, and the dispersion of the remnant of the people which were with him. See Jeremiah 41:1, and 2 Kings 25:25.