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Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;' but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says the LORD.

Verse ConceptsLearning From The PastImpenitence, Warnings AgainstIndifferencePast, TheEvil WaysNot Like PeopleFathersBeing A Good Father

But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did not they overtake your fathers? "Then they repented and said, 'Just as the LORD of hosts determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.'"

Verse ConceptsGod Spoke By The ProphetsRepaid For DeedsSigns Of RepentanceGod's Will Be Done

I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but only a little angry, but they added to the calamity."

Verse ConceptsSecurityDivine DispleasureDispleasureGod Angry With The NationsGod Saves From Sin And DeathThose At Ease

Then I asked, "What are these coming to do?" He said, "These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it."

Verse ConceptsHorns WeakenedHorns In AllegoryLifting HeadsWhat Do They Do?craftsmanship

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, "This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel, saying, 'Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says the LORD of hosts.

Verse ConceptsRefugeSpiritual Warfare, As ConflictWeaponsDivine Assistance, GivenFalse ConfidenceThe Divinity Of The Holy SpiritPower Through The SpiritStrengthPowerreassurance

"but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate."

Verse ConceptsWhirlwindsGod Scattering IsraelLand Becoming EmptyNot Knowing People

But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days," says the LORD of hosts.

Verse ConceptsSurvivors FavouredHistory Of Nations

For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land," says the LORD; "but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them."

Verse ConceptsGod Without Mercypity

For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the flesh of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces.

Verse ConceptsGod, As ShepherdNeglecting PeopleFat AnimalsNot Seeking PeopleFeet Of CreaturesNo Healing

but he will say, 'I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondservant from my youth.'

Verse ConceptsPloughmenWork From YouthProphets Who Were Not SentAgricultureFarming

It shall happen that in all the land," says the LORD, "two parts in it will be cut off and die; but the third will be left in it.

Verse ConceptsSmall RemnantsOne ThirdDeath Of Other GroupsSurvivalDying

It will be a unique day which is known to the LORD; not day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will be light.

Verse ConceptsUnceasingContinual GoodLight In The WorldDay Or NightBeing Unique

Men will dwell therein, and there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will dwell safely.

Verse ConceptsSafetyAnnihilationInhabitation

Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the LORD of hosts; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.

Verse ConceptsPots For Cooking And EatingInterlopers In The Templecookingpot