Zechariah 1:6 “But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants th…”

Zechariah 1:6

But 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.’”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.

World English Bible

But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’”

American Standard Version

But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? and they turned and said, Like as Jehovah of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.

Geneva Bible 1599

But did not my wordes and my statutes, which I commanded by my seruants ye Prophets, take holde of your fathers? and they returned, and sayd, As the Lord of hostes hath determined to doe vnto vs, according to our owne wayes, and according to our workes, so hath hee dealt with vs.

Darby Translation

But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? And they turned and said, Like as Jehovah of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.

Young's Literal Translation

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?'

Bible in Basic English

But my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the prophets, have they not overtaken your fathers? and turning back they said, As it was the purpose of the Lord of armies to do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so has he done.

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Cross references

“my words”

Isaiah 55:1

Isaiah 55:1 · BSB

“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!

“did”

Ezekiel 12:25–28 Matthew 24:35 Numbers 23:19 Jeremiah 44:28 Numbers 32:23 2 Chronicles 36:17–21

Ezekiel 12:25–28 · BSB

because I, the LORD, will speak whatever word I speak, and it will be fulfilled without delay. For in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak a message and bring it to pass, declares the Lord GOD.’”

Matthew 24:35 · BSB

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

Numbers 23:19 · BSB

God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?

Jeremiah 44:28 · BSB

Those who escape the sword will return from Egypt to Judah, few in number, and the whole remnant of Judah who went to dwell in the land of Egypt will know whose word will stand, Mine or theirs!

Numbers 32:23 · BSB

But if you do not do this, you will certainly sin against the LORD—and be assured that your sin will find you out.

2 Chronicles 36:17–21 · BSB

So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Ne…

“take hold of”

Deuteronomy 28:15 Amos 9:10 Deuteronomy 28:45 1 Thessalonians 5:4 Jeremiah 12:16

Deuteronomy 28:15 · BSB

If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

Amos 9:10 · BSB

All the sinners among My people will die by the sword— all those who say, ‘Disaster will never draw near or confront us.’”

Deuteronomy 28:45 · BSB

All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commandments and statutes He gave you.

1 Thessalonians 5:4 · BSB

But you, brothers, are not in the darkness so that this day should overtake you like a thief.

Jeremiah 12:16 · BSB

And if they will diligently learn the ways of My people and swear by My name, saying, ‘As surely as the LORD lives’—just as they once taught My people to swear by Baal—then they will be established among My people.

“they returned”

Job 6:29 Malachi 3:18

Job 6:29 · BSB

Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.

Malachi 3:18 · BSB

So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”

“Like”

Lamentations 2:17 Lamentations 1:18 Ezekiel 37:11 Lamentations 4:11 Lamentations 4:12

Lamentations 2:17 · BSB

The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.

Lamentations 1:18 · BSB

The LORD is righteous, yet I rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.

Ezekiel 37:11 · BSB

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

Lamentations 4:11 · BSB

The LORD has exhausted His wrath; He has poured out His fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has consumed her foundations.

Lamentations 4:12 · BSB

The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any people of the world, that an enemy or a foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.

“thought”

Jeremiah 23:20 Numbers 33:56

Jeremiah 23:20 · BSB

The anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has fully accomplished the purposes of His heart. In the days to come you will understand this clearly.

Numbers 33:56 · BSB

And then I will do to you what I had planned to do to them.”

“according to our ways”

Deuteronomy 28:20 Isaiah 3:8–11 Jeremiah 4:4 Jeremiah 18:8–11 Ezekiel 20:43 Hosea 9:15

Deuteronomy 28:20 · BSB

The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him.

Isaiah 3:8–11 · BSB

For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.

Jeremiah 4:4 · BSB

Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil…

Jeremiah 18:8–11 · BSB

But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.

Ezekiel 20:43 · BSB

There you will remember your ways and all the deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evils you have done.

Hosea 9:15 · BSB

All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.

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

In context

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

7On 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 Berechiah, the son of Iddo.

Read Zechariah 1