Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former (A)Prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Turn you now from your evil ways, and from your wicked works: but they would not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the Lord.

Your fathers, where [a]are they? and do the Prophets live forever?

But did not my words and my statutes, which I commanded by my servants the Prophets, take hold of [b]your fathers? and [c]they returned, and said, As the Lord of hosts hath determined to do unto us according to our own ways, and according to our works, so hath he dealt with us.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 1:5 Though your fathers be dead, yet God’s judgments in punishing them ought still to be before your eyes: and though the Prophets be dead, yet their doctrine remaineth forever, 2 Pet. 1:15.
  2. Zechariah 1:6 Seeing ye saw the force of my doctrine in punishing your fathers, why do ye not fear the threatenings contained in the same, and declared by my Prophets?
  3. Zechariah 1:6 As men astonished with my judgments, and not that they were touched with true repentance.

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