Zechariah 1:1-6 ▼

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

2 The LORD was extremely angry with your ancestors.

3 So tell the people: This is what the LORD of Hosts says: Return to Me|—this is the declaration of the LORD of Hosts—|and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.

4 Do not be like your ancestors; the earlier prophets proclaimed to them: This is what the LORD of Hosts says: Turn from your evil ways and your evil deeds. But they did not listen or pay attention to Me|—this is the LORD’s declaration. “

5 Where are your ancestors now? And do the prophets live forever?

6 But didn’t My words and My statutes that I commanded My servants the prophets overtake your ancestors? They repented and said: As the LORD of Hosts purposed to deal with us for our ways and deeds, so He has dealt with us.”