Zechariah 1:6

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Zechariah 1:6

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Summary

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.

My words

Isaiah 55:1

Did

Take hold of

They returned

Job 6:29

Malachi 3:18

Like

Thought

Numbers 33:56

Jeremiah 23:20

According to our ways

Hosea 2:6

General references

Bible References

My words

“Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters;
And you who have no money come, buy and eat.
Come, buy wine and milk

Without money and without cost.

Did

“God is not a man, that He should lie,
Nor a son of man, that He should repent;

Has He said, and will He not do it?

Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out.

Therefore He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or infirm; He gave them all into his hand.

Confirming the word of His servant

And performing the purpose of His messengers.
It is I who says of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be inhabited!’
And of the cities of Judah, ‘They shall be built.’
And I will raise up her ruins again.

Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city and on its inhabitants; for truly the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.”

Those who escape the sword will return out of the land of Egypt to the land of Judah

few in number. Then all the remnant of Judah who have gone to the land of Egypt to reside there will know whose word will stand, Mine or theirs.

For I the Lord will speak, and whatever word I speak will be performed. It will no longer be delayed, for in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and perform it,” declares the Lord God.’”

Indeed all Israel has transgressed Your law and turned aside, not obeying Your voice; so the curse has been poured out on us, along with the oath which is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against Him.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.

Take hold of

“But it shall come about, if you do not obey the Lord your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

Then if they will really learn the ways of My people, to swear by My name, ‘As the Lord lives,’ even as they taught My people to swear by Baal, they will be built up in the midst of My people.

“All the sinners of My people will die by the sword,
Those who say, ‘The calamity will not overtake or confront us.’

But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you

like a thief;

They returned

“Desist now, let there be no injustice;
Even desist, my righteousness is yet in it.

So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.

Like

“The Lord is righteous;
For I have rebelled against His command;
Hear now, all peoples,
And behold my pain;

My virgins and my young men

Have gone into captivity.

The Lord has done what He purposed;
He has accomplished His word
Which He commanded from days of old.
He has thrown down without sparing,
And He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you;
He has exalted the might of your adversaries.

The Lord has accomplished His wrath,
He has poured out His fierce anger;
And He has kindled a fire in Zion
Which has consumed its foundations.

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

Thought

And as I plan to do to them, so I will do to you.’”

“The anger of the Lord will not turn back
Until He has performed and carried out the purposes of His heart;

In the last days you will clearly understand it.

According to our ways

“The Lord will send upon you curses, confusion, and rebuke, in all you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken Me.

For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen,
Because their

speech and their actions are against the Lord,

To rebel against His glorious presence.

“Circumcise yourselves to the Lord
And remove the foreskins of your heart,
Men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem,
Or else My wrath will go forth like fire
And burn with none to quench it,
Because of the evil of your deeds.”

if that nation against which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will

relent concerning the calamity I planned to bring on it.

There you will remember your ways and all your deeds with which you have defiled yourselves; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all the evil things that you have done.

All their evil is at Gilgal;
Indeed, I came to hate them there!
Because of the wickedness of their deeds
I will drive them out of My house!
I will love them no more;
All their princes are rebels.

“Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns,
And I will build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.

General references

Then I looked again at vanity under the sun.

because they have not listened to My words,’ declares the Lord, ‘which I sent to them again and again by My servants the prophets; but you did not listen,’ declares the Lord.

“Take again another scroll and write on it all the former words that were on the first scroll which Jehoiakim the king of Judah burned.

Then they will know that I am the Lord; I have not said in vain that I would inflict this disaster on them.”’

Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘As the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

“All this happened to Nebuchadnezzar the king.