Zechariah 1:4-6
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
4 Do not be like your ancestors to whom the earlier prophets[a] proclaimed: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Turn from your evil ways and from your wicked deeds.(A) But they did not listen or pay attention to me(B)—oracle of the Lord.— 5 Your ancestors, where are they? And the prophets, can they live forever? 6 But my words and my statutes, with which I charged my servants the prophets, did these not overtake your ancestors?(C) Then they repented[b] and admitted: “Just as the Lord of hosts intended to treat us according to our ways and deeds, so the Lord has done.”
First Vision: Horses Patrolling the Earth.(D)
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- 1:4 Earlier prophets: preexilic prophets of the Lord. There are many allusions to them in Zechariah, indicating their influence on the postexilic community (see 7:7, 12).
- 1:6 Repented: the Hebrew word shub literally means “turn back.” This term is often used to speak of repentance as a return to the covenantal relationship between Israel and the Lord.
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