Zechariah 1:1-6

A Call to Repentance

Zechariah 1:1-6

A Call to Repentance

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In the eighth month, in the second year of king Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah the son of Barachias, the son of Addo, the prophet, saying:
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The Lord hath been exceeding angry with your fathers.
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And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Turn ye to me, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will turn to you, saith the Lord of hosts.
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Be not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have cried, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Turn ye from your evil ways, and from your wicked thoughts: but they did not give ear, neither did they hearken to me, saith the Lord.
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Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, shall they live always?
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But yet my words, and my ordinances, which I gave in charge to my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers, and they returned, and said: As the Lord of hosts thought to do to us according to our ways, and according to our devices, so he hath done to us.
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See also

Where else Scripture says this.

  • Malachi 3:7

    For from the days of your fathers you have departed from my ordinances, and have not kept them: Return to me, and I will return to you, saith the Lord of hosts. And you have said: Wherein shall we return?
    from verse 3

  • Jeremiah 3:22

    Return, you rebellious children, and I will heal your rebellions. Behold we come to thee: for thou art the Lord our God.
    from verse 3

  • Lamentations 2:17

    Ain. The Lord hath done that which he purposed, he hath fulfilled his word, which he commanded in the days of old: he hath destroyed, and hath not spared, and he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee, and hath set up the horn of thy adversaries.
    from verse 6

  • Psalms 78:8

    Remember not our former iniquities: let thy mercies speedily prevent us, for we are become exceeding poor.
    from verse 4

  • Jeremiah 4:1

    If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return to me: if thou wilt take away thy stumblingblocks out of my sight, thou shalt not be moved.
    from verse 3

  • Joel 2:12

    Now, therefore, saith the Lord. Be converted to me with all your heart, in fasting, and in weeping, and mourning.
    from verse 3

  • Deuteronomy 28:15

    But if thou wilt not hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep and to do all his commandments and ceremonies, which I command thee this day, all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.
    from verse 6

  • Ezekiel 12:25

    For I the Lord will speak: and what word soever I shall speak, it shall come to pass, and shall not be prolonged any more: but in your days, ye provoking house, I will speak the word, and will do it, saith the Lord God.
    from verse 6

  • Ezekiel 12:28

    Therefore say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: not one word of mine shall be prolonged any more: the word that I shall speak shall be accomplished, saith the Lord God.
    from verse 6

  • Deuteronomy 30:2

    And shalt return to him, and obey his commandments, as I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul:
    from verse 3

  • Deuteronomy 30:10

    Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep his precepts and ceremonies, which are written in this law: and return to the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.
    from verse 3

  • Jeremiah 23:20

    The wrath of the Lord shall not return till he execute it, and till he accomplish the thought of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand his counsel.
    from verse 6
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