Zechariah 1:5

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

Zechariah 1:5 in Other Translations

KJV
5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
ESV
5 Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
NLT
5 “Where are your ancestors now? They and the prophets are long dead.
MSG
5 "And where are your ancestors now? Dead and buried. And the prophets who preached to them? Also dead and buried. But the Message that my servants the prophets spoke, that isn't dead and buried.
CSB
5 "Where are your ancestors now? And do the prophets live forever?

Zechariah 1:5 In-Context

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.’ ”
7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo.
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