“And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying,”
King James Version (KJV)
7:6 For yourselves - I was as little minded by you in your fasts, as in your feasts.
7:7 Hear the words - You needed not have thus enquired, had you heeded the written word. Prophets - Who have called for repentance, and sincere love to God, and man, and shewed how light, formal services are. Prosperity - Did such observances preserve Jerusalem in its prosperity? Were they sufficient to save the men that inhabited the south of the plain? Did they do no good when things were all safe and well? And do you imagine they can profit you, now all is in ruins?
7:9 Spake - To your fathers.
7:10 Imagine evil - Neither think ill of, or with ill to, nor plot evil against one another.