Hypocritical Fasting Condemned In the fourth year of King Dari′us, the word of the Lord came to Zechari′ah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And it came to pass in the fourth year of Darius the king, that the word of the Lord came to Zacharias on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chaseleu.
Ϫⲉ ⲁⲛ ⲁϥⲓ̀ ⲉ̀ϧⲟⲩⲛ ⲛⲉⲙ ⲛⲁⲓ ⲛ̀ϫⲉ ⲡⲓⲙⲁⲛ̀ⲧⲟⲩⲃⲟ ϧⲉⲛ ⲡⲓⲙⲁϩⲉ̅ ⲛ̀ⲁⲃⲟⲧ ⲉⲑⲃⲉ ϫⲉ ⲁϥⲓⲣⲓ ϩⲏⲇⲏ ⲛ̀ϩⲁⲛⲣⲟⲙⲡⲓ ⲉⲩⲟϣ The holy offering has come in hither in the fifth month, as it has done already many years.
English (Standard • WEB)
and to ask the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and the prophets, “Should I mourn and fast in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
speaking to the priests that were in the house of the Lord Almighty, and to the prophets, saying,
“Say to all the people of the land and the priests, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
Speak 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?
When Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, with her cities round about her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited, were not these the words which the Lord proclaimed by the former prophets?”
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
Are 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?
They made their hearts like adamant lest they should hear the law and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from the Lord of hosts.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And they made their heart disobedient, so as not to hearken to my law, and the words which the Lord Almighty sent forth by his Spirit by the former prophets: so there was great wrath from the Lord Almighty.
“and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate.”
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And I will cast them out among all the nations, whom they know not; and the land behind them shall be made utterly destitute of any going through or returning: yea they have made the choice land a desolation.