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What does Zechariah 7:5 mean?

'Tell all the people and the priests: When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you were fasting?' Zechariah 7:5 - Modern Text Bible

(God challenges their motives, asking if their fasting was truly for Him or just a ritual.)