Zechariah 1:2

2 "Yahweh {was very angry with your ancestors}.^[a]

Zechariah 1:2 Meaning and Commentary

Zechariah 1:2

The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers.
] Who lived before and at the time of the destruction of the city of Jerusalem, and which was manifest by their captivity; all which were occasioned by their sins, with which they provoked the Lord to sore displeasure against them; and this is mentioned as a caution to their children, that they might not follow their example, and incur the like displeasure.

Zechariah 1:2 In-Context

1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, son of Iddo, saying,

2 "Yahweh {was very angry with your ancestors}.

3 You must say to them: 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Return to me," {declares} Yahweh of hosts, "and I will return to you," says Yahweh of hosts.

4 "Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Return from your evil ways and your evil deeds!" ' But they did not hear and they did not pay attention to me," {declares} Yahweh.

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

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "was angry against your ancestors [with] anger"