Zechariah 1:3-6

3 Therefore tell the people: This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘Return to me,’ declares the LORD Almighty, ‘and I will return to you,’ says the LORD Almighty.
4 Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘Turn from your evil ways and your evil practices.’ But they would not listen or pay attention to me, declares the LORD.
5 Where are your ancestors now? And the prophets, do they live forever?
6 But did not my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, overtake your ancestors? “Then they repented and said, ‘The LORD Almighty has done to us what our ways and practices deserve, just as he determined to do.’ ”

Cross References 11

  • 1. S Job 22:23
  • 2. Malachi 3:7; James 4:8
  • 3. S 2 Chronicles 36:15
  • 4. Zechariah 7:7
  • 5. S 2 Kings 17:13; S 2 Chronicles 7:14; Psalms 106:6; S Jeremiah 23:22
  • 6. S 2 Chronicles 24:19; Psalms 78:8; S Jeremiah 6:17; Jeremiah 17:23
  • 7. S Ezekiel 20:18; S Ezekiel 33:4
  • 8. S Isaiah 44:26
  • 9. S Deuteronomy 28:2; S Daniel 9:12; S Hosea 5:9
  • 10. Jeremiah 12:14-17; Lamentations 2:17
  • 11. Jeremiah 23:20; Jeremiah 39:16; S Jeremiah 44:17
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