Zechariah 1:5
“Your fathers, where are they? and the Prophets, doe they liue for euer?”
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Zechariah 1:5 Context
3Therefore say thou vnto them, Thus saith the Lord of hostes; Turne ye vnto me, saith the Lord of hostes, and I will turne vnto you, saith the Lord of hostes. 4Be ye not as your fathers, vnto whom the former Prophets haue cried, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hostes, Turne ye now from your euill wayes, and from your euil doings: but they did not heare, nor hearken vnto me, saith the Lord. 5Your fathers, where are they? and the Prophets, doe they liue for euer? 6But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my seruants the Prophets, did they not take holde of your fathers? and they returned and saide; Like as the Lord of hostes thought to doe vnto vs, according to our wayes, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with vs. 7¶ Upon the foure and twentieth day of the eleuenth moneth, which is the moneth Sebat, in the second yere of Darius, came the word of the Lord vnto Zechariah, the sonne of Barachiah, the sonne of Iddo the Prophet, saying:
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Other Translations for Zechariah 1:5
Your fathers, where [are] they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
- King James Version
"Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
- American Standard Version (1901)
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?
- Basic English Bible
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
- Darby Bible
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
- Webster's Bible
Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
- World English Bible
Your fathers -- where [are] they? And the prophets -- to the age do they live?
- Youngs Literal Bible
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Zechariah 1:5
1:5 Where are they - But where are your disobedient fathers? Were they not consumed with famine and sword, as I threatened them? Do they live - The prophets died as others; they must not live always to warn you.