After the Jews were released from captivity in Babylon, Jehovah said through the prophet Zechariah: “When you fasted..., and this for seventy years, did you really fast to me, even me? ”
Dievs šos gavēņus nevērtēja atzinīgi, jo jūdi gavēja un sēroja par spriedumiem, kas bija nākuši no paša Jehovas.