Zechariah 7:6
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?

Young's Literal Translation
When ye fasted with mourning in the fifth and in the seventh [months]—even these seventy years—did ye keep the fast [to] Me—Me? And when ye eat, and when ye drink, is it not ye who are eating, and ye who are drinking?

King James Bible
And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat [for yourselves], and drink [for yourselves]?

Hebrew
And when
וְכִ֥י (wə·ḵî)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

you were eating
תֹאכְל֖וּ (ṯō·ḵə·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 398: To eat

and drinking,
תִשְׁתּ֑וּ (ṯiš·tū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 8354: To imbibe

were you not
הֲל֤וֹא (hă·lō·w)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

[doing so]
אַתֶּם֙ (’at·tem)
Pronoun - second person masculine plural
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

simply for yourselves?
הַשֹּׁתִֽים׃ (haš·šō·ṯîm)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 8354: To imbibe

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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