Zechariah 1:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “The Lord was very angry with your ancestors. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The Lord was very angry with your fathers. American Standard Version (1901) Jehovah was sore displeased with your fathers. Common English Bible The LORD was terribly angry with your ancestors. Catholic Public Domain Version The Lord has become angry over the resentful anger of your fathers. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The Lord hath been exceeding angry with your fathers. |
because your heart was penitent and you humbled yourself before the Lord, when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, says the Lord.
Still the Lord did not turn from the fierceness of his great wrath by which his anger was kindled against Judah because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him.
After all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a remnant as this,
O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses; you have been angry; now restore us!
and they entered and took possession of it. But they did not obey your voice or follow your laws; of all you commanded them to do, they did nothing. Therefore you have made all these disasters come upon them.
So my wrath and my anger were poured out and kindled in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they became a waste and a desolation, as they still are today.
Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath; I have returned their conduct upon their heads, says the Lord God.
Therefore I will act in wrath; my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity, and though they cry in my hearing with a loud voice, I will not listen to them.”
and I am extremely angry with the nations that are at ease, for while I was only a little angry, they made the disaster worse.
They made their hearts adamant in order not to hear the law and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent by his spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from the Lord of hosts.
“For thus says the Lord of hosts: Just as I purposed to bring disaster upon you when your ancestors provoked me to wrath, and I did not relent, says the Lord of hosts,
Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers.