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 Darius, hath a word of Jehovah been unto Zechariah, son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, the prophet, saying:
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`Jehovah was wroth against your fathers--wrath!
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And thou hast said unto them, Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, turn back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And I turn back unto you, said Jehovah of Hosts.
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Ye shall not be as your fathers, To whom the former prophets called, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Turn back I pray you, From your evil ways and from your evil doings, And they did not hearken, Nor attend to Me--an affirmation of Jehovah.
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Your fathers--where are they? And the prophets--to the age do they live?
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Only, My words, and My statutes, That I commanded My servants the prophets, Have they not overtaken your fathers, And they turn back and say: As Jehovah of Hosts designed to do to us, According to our ways, and according to our doings, So He hath done to us?'
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See also

Where else Scripture says this.

  • Malachi 3:7

    Even from the days of your fathers Ye have turned aside from My statutes, And ye have not taken heed. Turn back unto Me, and I turn back to you, Said Jehovah of Hosts. And ye have said, `In what do we turn back?'
    from verse 3

  • Jeremiah 3:22

    Turn back, O backsliding sons, I cause your backslidings to cease. --Behold us, we have come to Thee, For Thou art Jehovah our God.
    from verse 3

  • Lamentations 2:17

    Jehovah hath done that which He devised, He hath fulfilled His saying That He commanded from the days of old, He hath broken down and hath not pitied, And causeth an enemy to rejoice over thee, He lifted up the horn of thine adversaries.
    from verse 6

  • Psalms 78:8

    And they are not like their fathers, A generation apostate and rebellious, A generation! it hath not prepared its heart, Nor stedfast with God is its spirit.
    from verse 4

  • Jeremiah 4:1

    If thou dost turn back, O Israel, An affirmation of Jehovah, unto Me turn back, And if thou dost turn aside Thine abominations from My face, Then thou dost not bemoan.
    from verse 3

  • Joel 2:12

    And also now--an affirmation of Jehovah, Turn ye back unto Me with all your heart, And with fasting, and with weeping, And with lamentation.
    from verse 3

  • Deuteronomy 28:15

    `And it hath been, if thou dost not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God to observe to do all His commands, and His statutes, which I am commanding thee to-day, that all these revilings have come upon thee, and overtaken thee:
    from verse 6

  • Ezekiel 12:25

    For I am Jehovah, I speak, The word that I speak--it is done, It is not prolonged any more, For, in your days, O rebellious house, I speak a word, and I have done it, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'
    from verse 6

  • Ezekiel 12:28

    therefore say unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: None of my words are prolonged any more, When I speak a word--it is done, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'
    from verse 6

  • Deuteronomy 30:2

    and hast turned back unto Jehovah thy God, and hearkened to His voice, according to all that I am commanding thee to-day, thou and thy sons, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul--
    from verse 3

  • Deuteronomy 30:10

    for thou dost hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep His commands, and His statutes, which are written in the book of this law, for thou turnest back unto Jehovah thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.
    from verse 3

  • Jeremiah 23:20

    The anger of Jehovah doth not turn back Till His doing, and till His establishing, The thoughts of His heart, In the latter end of the days ye attend to it With understanding.
    from verse 6
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