And when ye ate, and when ye drank, was it not you that were eating and drinking?

And when ye ate, and when ye drank, did ye not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

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?

And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?

And when ye eat, and when ye did drink, are ye not they that eat, and they that drink?

Et quum comedistis, et quum bibistis, annon vos comedistis et vos bibistis?

And when ye eat and when ye drink, is it not ye who eat and ye who drink? - Conversely now that, after your return, ye feast for joy, this is no religious act; ye have all the good of it, there is no thanksgiving to God. Contrary to the apostle's saying, "Whether ye eat or drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the glow of God" 1-Corinthians 10:31. "He eateth and drinketh to himself, who receiveth the nourishments of the body, which are the common gifts of the Creator, without the needy. And anyone fasts to himself, if he doth not give to the poor what for the time he withdraweth from himself, but keepeth it to be thereafter offered to his appetite. Hence, it is said by Joel, sanctify a fast. For to 'sanctify a fast' is to show an abstinence worthy of God through other good deeds. Let anger cease, quarrels be hushed. For in vain is the flesh worn, if the mind is not refrained from evil pleasures, since the Lord says by the prophet, "Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure. Behold, ye fast for strife and debate" Isaiah 57:3-4.

And when ye did eat - They had not observed those fasts as they should have done. They deplored the loss of their temple, and its riches, etc., but they did not humble themselves because of those iniquities which had brought the displeasure of God upon them, their temple, and their city.

And when ye ate, and when ye drank, did ye not eat (h) [for yourselves], and drink [for yourselves]?
(h) Did you not eat and drink for your own benefit and necessity, and so likewise you abstained according to your own imaginings, and not after the command and direction of my Law.

And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink,.... Either at common meals, or at their festivals:
did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? merely and only for their own refreshment and pleasure, and not for the glory of God; though that ought to be the principal end in eating and drinking, 1-Corinthians 10:31.

did not ye eat for yourselves?--literally, "Is it not ye who eat?" that is, it is not unto Me and My glory. It tends no more to My glory, your feasting than your fasting.

For yourselves - I was as little minded by you in your fasts, as in your feasts.