Zechariah 1:5
Zechariah chapter 1 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
KJV
King James Version · 1611Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Context
v.4Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Return ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith Jehovah.
v.5This passage
v.6But 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.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ecclesiastes 12:7
and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.
- Ecclesiastes 1:4
One generation goeth, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth for ever.
- Acts 13:36
For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
- 2 Peter 3:2
that ye should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of the Lord and Saviour through your apostles:
- Ecclesiastes 9:1
For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them.
- Hebrews 7:23
And they indeed have been made priests many in number, because that by death they are hindered from continuing: