Holy Scripture
Zechariah 7:6
A church father on this verse
“By righteousness, I say, and by continence and by the rest of the virtues, God is worshiped. For Zechariah also tells us, saying, "If you eat or drink, is it not you that eat or drink?" declaring thereby that meat and drink do not pertain to God but to humankind: for neither is God fleshly, so as to be pleased with fl…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
6And if ye eat or drink, do ye not eat and drink for yourselves?
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4And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying,
5Speak to the whole people of the land, and to the priests, saying, Though ye fasted or lamented in the fifth or seventh months (yea, behold, these seventy years) have ye at all fasted to me?
— Zechariah 7:6 —
7Are not these the words which the Lord spoke by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and her cities round about her, and the hill country and the low country was inhabited?
8And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying,