5 “Say to all the people of the land* and to the priests, ‘When YOU fasted+ and there was a wailing in the fifth [month] and in the seventh+ [month], and this for seventy years,+ did YOU really fast to me, even me?+

14 “YOU have said, ‘It is of no value to serve God.+ And what profit is there in that we have kept the obligation to him, and that we have walked dejectedly on account of Jehovah of armies?+