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Zechariah 1:6

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

But didn’t my words and my statutes that I commanded my servants the prophets overtake your ancestors? ” ’ So the people repented and said, ‘As the Lord of Armies decided to deal with us for our ways and our deeds, so he has dealt with us.’

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The Lord has done what he planned; he has accomplished his decree, which he ordained in days of old. He has demolished without compassion, letting the enemy gloat over you and exalting the horn of your adversaries.


‘But if you do not obey the Lord your God by carefully following all his commands and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overtake  you:


Heaven and earth will pass away,   but my words will never pass away.


The Lord’s anger will not turn away until he has completely fulfilled the purposes of his heart. In time to come you will understand it clearly.


All the sinners among my people who say, ‘Disaster will never overtake or confront us,’ will die by the sword.


Those who escape the sword will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah only few in number,  and the whole remnant of Judah, the ones going to the land of Egypt to stay there for a while, will know whose word stands, mine or theirs!


God is not a man, that he might lie, or a son of man, that he might change his mind. Does he speak and not act, or promise and not fulfil?


But you, brothers and sisters, are not in the dark, for this day to surprise you like a thief.


So you will again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.


All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I began to hate them. I will drive them from my house because of their evil, wicked actions. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.


Then he said to me, ‘Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel.  Look how they say, “Our bones are dried up,  and our hope has perished;  we are cut off.”


There you will remember your ways and all your deeds by which you have defiled yourself,  and you will loathe yourselves for all the evil things you have done.


The Lord is just, for I have rebelled against his command. Listen, all you people; look at my pain. My young women and young men have gone into captivity.


But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood  on yourselves, on this city, and on its residents, for it is certain that the Lord has sent me to speak all these things directly to you.’


Circumcise yourselves to the  Lord; remove the foreskin of your hearts, men of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. Otherwise, my wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of your evil deeds.


‘Come, everyone who is thirsty, come to the water; and you without silver, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without silver and without cost!


who confirms the message of his servant and fulfils the counsel of his messengers; who says to Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited,’ and to the cities of Judah, ‘They will be rebuilt,’ and I will restore her ruins;


Reconsider; don’t be unjust. Reconsider; my righteousness  is still the issue.


‘All these curses will come, pursue, and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the Lord your God and keep the commands and statutes he gave you.


The Lord will send against you curses, confusion,  and rebuke in everything you do until you are destroyed and quickly perish,  because of the wickedness of your actions in abandoning me.


And what I had planned to do to them, I will do to you.’


But if you don’t do this, you will certainly sin against the Lord; be sure your sin will catch up with you.


All these blessings will come and overtake  you, because you obey the Lord your God:


The remaining Kedarite archers will be few in number.’ For the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.


Therefore, this is what the Lord God of Armies says: Because you have spoken this word, I am going to make my words become fire in your mouth. These people are the wood, and the fire will consume them.


Look! Siege ramps  have come against the city to capture it, and the city, as a result of the sword, famine, and plague, has been handed over to the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What you have spoken has happened. Look, you can see it!


‘Take another scroll, and once again write on it the original words that were on the original scroll that King Jehoiakim of Judah burned.


‘Go and tell Ebed-melech the Cushite,  “This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I am about to fulfil my words for disaster and not for good against this city. They will take place before your eyes on that day.


This will be a sign to you” #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #“that I will punish you in this place, so that you may know that my words of disaster concerning you will certainly come to pass.


All this happened to King Nebuchadnezzar.


Ephraim will become a desolation on the day of punishment; I announce what is certain among the tribes of Israel.


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


The word of the Lord that he spoke to Jehu was, ‘Four generations of your sons will sit on the throne of Israel,’  and it was so.


so my word that comes from my mouth will not return to me empty, but it will accomplish what I please and will prosper in what I send it to do.’


And the prophet Hananiah died that year in the seventh month.


‘This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster I brought against Jerusalem and all Judah’s cities. Look, they are a ruin today without an inhabitant in them


So my fierce wrath poured out and burned in Judah’s cities and Jerusalem’s streets  so that they became the desolate ruin they are today.


‘We have sinned and rebelled; you have not forgiven.





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