Zechariah 1:12

New American Bible - revised edition

Then the angel of the Lord replied, “Lord of hosts, how long will you be without mercy for Jerusalem and the cities of Judah that have felt your anger these seventy years?”

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:21

All this was to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah: Until the land has retrieved its lost sabbaths, during all the time it lies waste it shall have rest while seventy years are fulfilled. Decree of Cyrus.

Psalm 102:10

I eat ashes like bread, mingle my drink with tears.

Psalm 102:13

But you, Lord, are enthroned forever; your renown is for all generations.

Psalm 69:5

More numerous than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause. Those who would destroy me are mighty, my enemies without reason. Must I now restore what I did not steal?

Psalm 74:10

How long, O God, will the enemy jeer? Will the enemy revile your name forever?

Psalm 79:5

How long, Lord? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealous anger keep burning like fire?

Ecclesiastes 3:3

A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear down, and a time to build.

Isaiah 47:6

Angry at my people, I profaned my heritage And gave them into your power; but you showed them no mercy; Upon the aged you laid a very heavy yoke.

Isaiah 63:9

in their every affliction. It was not an envoy or a messenger, but his presence that saved them. Because of his love and pity the Lord redeemed them, Lifting them up and carrying them all the days of old.

Jeremiah 12:4

How long must the land mourn, the grass of the whole countryside wither? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it beasts and birds disappear, for they say, “God does not care about our future.”

Jeremiah 15:17

I did not sit celebrating in the circle of merrymakers; Under the weight of your hand I sat alone because you filled me with rage.

Jeremiah 29:10

For thus says the Lord: Only after seventy years have elapsed for Babylon will I deal with you and fulfill for you my promise to bring you back to this place.

Jeremiah 30:18

Thus says the Lord: See! I will restore the fortunes of Jacob’s tents, on his dwellings I will have compassion; A city shall be rebuilt upon its own ruins, a citadel restored where it should be.

Daniel 12:6

One of them said to the man clothed in linen, who was upstream, “How long shall it be to the end of these appalling things?”

Daniel 9:2

in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years the Lord had decreed to the prophet Jeremiah: Jerusalem was to lie in ruins for seventy years.

Habakkuk 1:2

How long, O Lord, must I cry for help and you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” and you do not intervene?

Zechariah 1:8

I looked out in the night, and there was a man mounted on a red horse standing in the shadows among myrtle trees; and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.

Zechariah 7:5

Say to all the people of the land and to the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh month these seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted?

Hebrews 7:25

Therefore, he is always able to save those who approach God through him, since he lives forever to make intercession for them.

Revelation 6:10

They cried out in a loud voice, “How long will it be, holy and true master, before you sit in judgment and avenge our blood on the inhabitants of the earth?”