Zechariah 1:5 “Where are your fathers now? And the prophets, do they live forever?”

Zechariah 1:5

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

World English Bible

Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

American Standard Version

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

Geneva Bible 1599

your fathers, where are they? and doe the Prophets liue for euer?

Darby Translation

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

Young's Literal Translation

Your fathers — where [are] they? And the prophets — to the age do they live?

Bible in Basic English

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?

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Cross references

“Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?”

Ecclesiastes 12:5 2 Peter 3:2–4 Job 14:10–12 Psalm 90:10 Ecclesiastes 12:7 Hebrews 9:27

Ecclesiastes 12:5 · BSB

when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels— for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.

2 Peter 3:2–4 · BSB

by recalling what was foretold by the holy prophets and commanded by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.

Job 14:10–12 · BSB

But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?

Psalm 90:10 · BSB

The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 · BSB

before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Hebrews 9:27 · BSB

Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

Also

John 8:52

John 8:52 · BSB

“Now we know that You have a demon!” declared the Jews. “Abraham died, and so did the prophets, yet You say that anyone who keeps Your word will never taste death.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.

6But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”

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