Zechariah 1:1-6 ▼

1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of YHWH came to Zechariah son of Berechiah son of Iddo, the prophet, saying:

2 “YHWH has been angry at your? fathers with wrath.

3 Therefore you shall say to them, thus says YHWH of Hosts: ‘Return to Me, a declaration of YHWH of Hosts, and I will return to you?, says YHWH of Hosts.’

4 Do not be like your? fathers, to whom the former prophets called, saying, thus says YHWH of Hosts: ‘Turn aside now from your? evil ways and your? evil deeds.’ They did not hear and did not pay attention to Me, a declaration of YHWH.

5 Your? fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

6 Indeed, My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, did not they overtake your? fathers? And they returned and said, ‘As YHWH of Hosts determined to do to us, according to our ways and according to our deeds, so He has done to us.’”