Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G Message"Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests: When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months, year upon year for seventy years — was it truly for Me that you were fasting?"
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.G"Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh months these seventy years — was it truly for Me that you fasted?"
KJV
King James VersionSpeak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?
BSB
Berean Standard Bible“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?
Footnotes
הֲצוֹם צַמְתֻּנִי אָנִי — the emphatic first-person pronoun אָנִי ("I/Me") is held back to the very end of the clause, then detonated. The interrogative particle הֲ turns the whole construction into a rhetorical stiletto: "did you fast — Me?" The answer is structurally implied as No. Both versions preserve the sting with "truly for Me," though the Hebrew is even more abrupt and confrontational than English allows.
