Zechariah 1:6

Bible in Basic English 1965

But my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the prophets, have they not overtaken your fathers? and turning back they said, As it was the purpose of the Lord of armies to do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so has he done.

Cross References

2 Kings 15:12

This was what the Lord had said to Jehu, Your sons to the fourth generation will be kings of Israel. And so it came about.

Job 6:29

Let your minds be changed, and do not have an evil opinion of me; yes, be changed, for my righteousness is still in me.

Isaiah 21:17

And the rest of the bowmen, the men of war of the children of Kedar, will be small in number: for the Lord, the God of Israel, has said it.

Isaiah 44:26

Who makes the word of his servants certain, and gives effect to the purposes of his representatives; who says of Jerusalem, Her people will come back to her; and of the towns of Judah, I will give orders for their building, and will make her waste places fertile again:

Isaiah 55:1

Ho! everyone in need, come to the waters, and he who has no strength, let him get food: come, get bread without money; wine and milk without price.

Isaiah 55:11

So will my word be which goes out of my mouth: it will not come back to me with nothing done, but it will give effect to my purpose, and do that for which I have sent it.

Jeremiah 23:20

The wrath of the Lord will not be turned back till he has done, till he has put into effect, the purposes of his heart: in days to come you will have full knowledge of this.

Jeremiah 26:15

Only be certain that, if you put me to death, you will make yourselves and your town and its people responsible for the blood of one who has done no wrong: for truly, the Lord has sent me to you to say all these words in your ears.

Jeremiah 28:17

So death came to Hananiah the prophet the same year, in the seventh month.

Jeremiah 32:24

See, they have made earthworks against the town to take it; and the town is given into the hands of the Chaldaeans who are fighting against it, because of the sword and need of food and disease: and what you have said has taken place, and truly you see it.

Jeremiah 36:28

Take another book and put down in it all the words which were in the first book, which Jehoiakim, king of Judah, put into the fire.

Jeremiah 39:16

Go and say to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, my words will come true for this town, for evil and not for good: they will come about before your eyes on that day.

Jeremiah 4:4

Undergo a circumcision of the heart, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem: or my wrath may come out like fire, burning so that no one is able to put it out, because of the evil of your doings.

Jeremiah 44:2

The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: You have seen all the evil which I have sent on Jerusalem and on all the towns of Judah; and now, this day they are waste and unpeopled;

Jeremiah 44:28

And those who get away safe from the sword will come back from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, a very small number; and all the rest of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt and are living there, will see whose word has effect, mine or theirs.

Jeremiah 44:29

And this will be the sign to you, says the Lord, that I will give you punishment in this place, so that you may see that my words will certainly have effect against you for evil:

Jeremiah 44:6

Because of this, my passion and my wrath were let loose, burning in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are waste and unpeopled as at this day.

Jeremiah 5:14

For this reason the Lord, the God of armies, has said: Because you have said this, I will make my words in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and they will be burned up by it.

Lamentations 1:18

The Lord is upright; for I have gone against his orders: give ear, now, all you peoples, and see my pain, my virgins and my young men have gone away as prisoners.

Lamentations 2:17

The Lord has done that which was his purpose; he has put into force the orders which he gave in the days which are past; pulling down without pity, he has made your hater glad over you, lifting up the horn of those who were against you.

Lamentations 3:42

We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.

Ezekiel 20:43

And there, at the memory of your ways and of all the things you did to make yourselves unclean, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of all the evil things you have done.

Ezekiel 37:11

Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are all the children of Israel: and see, they are saying, Our bones have become dry our hope is gone, we are cut off completely.

Daniel 4:28

All this came to King Nebuchadnezzar.

Hosea 5:9

Ephraim will become a waste in the day of punishment; I have given knowledge among the tribes of Israel of what is certain.

Hosea 9:15

All their evil-doing is in Gilgal; there I had hate for them; because of their evil-doing I will send them out of my house; they will no longer be dear to me; all their rulers are uncontrolled.

Amos 9:10

All those sinners among my people will be put to the sword who say, Evil will not overtake us or come face to face with us.

Zechariah 1:7

On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

Malachi 3:18

Then you will again see how the upright man is different from the sinner, and the servant of God from him who is not.

Numbers 23:19

God is not a man, to say what is false; or the son of man, that his purpose may be changed: what he has said, will he not do? and will he not give effect to the words of his mouth?

Numbers 32:23

But if you do not do this, then you are sinners against the Lord; and you may be certain that your sin will have its reward.

Numbers 33:56

And it will come about that as it was my purpose to do to them, so I will do to you.

Matthew 24:35

Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.

Deuteronomy 28:15

But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to do all his orders and his laws which I give you today, then all these curses will come on you and overtake you:

Deuteronomy 28:2

And all these blessings will come on you and overtake you, if your ears are open to the voice of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 28:20

The Lord will send on you cursing and trouble and punishment in everything to which you put your hand, till sudden destruction overtakes you; because of your evil ways in which you have been false to me.

Deuteronomy 28:45

And all these curses will come after you and overtake you, till your destruction is complete; because you did not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, or keep his laws and his orders which he gave you:

1 Thessalonians 5:4

But you, my brothers, are not in the dark, for that day to overtake you like a thief: