Parallel Verses
Webster
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
New American Standard Bible
“Your
King James Version
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Holman Bible
“Where are your ancestors now? And do the prophets live forever?
International Standard Version
"Your ancestors where are they? And the prophets do they live forever?
A Conservative Version
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?
Amplified
“Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
Bible in Basic English
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?
Darby Translation
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Julia Smith Translation
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, shall they live forever?
King James 2000
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live forever?
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Your ancestors, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
Modern King James verseion
Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
What is now become of your forefathers and the prophets? Are they yet still alive?
NET Bible
"As for your ancestors, where are they? And did the prophets live forever?
New Heart English Bible
Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
The Emphasized Bible
Your fathers, where are they? and, the prophets, to times age-abiding, do they live?
World English Bible
Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
Youngs Literal Translation
Your fathers -- where are they? And the prophets -- to the age do they live?
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Zechariah 1:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Plea For Repentance
4 Be ye not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken to me, saith the LORD. 5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? 6 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, As the LORD of hosts thought to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 14:10-12
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yes, man yieldeth his breath, and where is he?
Psalm 90:10
The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Ecclesiastes 1:4
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
Ecclesiastes 9:1-3
For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.
Ecclesiastes 12:5
Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
Ecclesiastes 12:7
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.
John 8:52
Then said the Jews to him, Now we know that thou hast a demon. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man shall keep my saying, he shall never taste death.
Acts 13:36
For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, and was laid to his fathers, and saw corruption:
Hebrews 7:23-24
And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:
Hebrews 9:27
And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment:
2 Peter 3:2-4
That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Savior: