Zechariah 1:6

New American Bible - revised edition

But my words and my statutes, with which I charged my servants the prophets, did these not overtake your ancestors? Then they repented and admitted: “Just as the Lord of hosts intended to treat us according to our ways and deeds, so the Lord has done.” First Vision: Horses Patrolling the Earth.

Cross References

2 Kings 15:12

This was the word the Lord had spoken to Jehu: Sons of your line to the fourth generation shall sit upon the throne of Israel; and so it was. Reign of Shallum of Israel.

Job 6:29

Think it over; let there be no injustice. Think it over; I still am right.

Isaiah 21:17

Few of Kedar’s stalwart archers shall remain, for the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.

Isaiah 44:26

I confirm the words of my servant, carry out the plan my messengers announce. I say to Jerusalem, Be inhabited! To the cities of Judah, Be rebuilt! I will raise up their ruins.

Isaiah 55:1

All you who are thirsty, come to the water! You who have no money, come, buy grain and eat; Come, buy grain without money, wine and milk without cost!

Isaiah 55:11

So shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; It shall not return to me empty, but shall do what pleases me, achieving the end for which I sent it.

Jeremiah 23:20

The anger of the Lord shall not abate until he has carried out completely the decisions of his heart. In days to come you will understand fully.

Jeremiah 26:15

But you should certainly know that by putting me to death, you bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city and its inhabitants. For in truth it was the Lord who sent me to you, to speak all these words for you to hear.”

Jeremiah 28:17

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

Jeremiah 32:24

See, the siegeworks have arrived at this city to capture it; the city is handed over to the Chaldeans who are attacking it, with sword, starvation, and disease. What you threatened has happened—you can see it for yourself.

Jeremiah 36:28

Take another scroll, and write on it all the words in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim, king of Judah, burned.

Jeremiah 39:16

Go, tell this to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian: Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: See, I am now carrying out my words against this city, for evil and not for good; this will happen in your presence on that day.

Jeremiah 4:4

Be circumcised for the Lord, remove the foreskins of your hearts, people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Or else my anger will break out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of your evil deeds.

Jeremiah 44:2

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: You yourselves have seen all the evil I brought upon Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah. Today they lie in ruins uninhabited,

Jeremiah 44:28

Those who escape the sword to return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah shall be few in number. The whole remnant of Judah who came to Egypt to live shall know whose word stands, mine or theirs.

Jeremiah 44:29

And this shall be a sign to you—oracle of the Lord—I will punish you in this place so that you will know that my words stand solidly against you for evil.

Jeremiah 44:6

Therefore the fury of my anger poured forth and kindled fire in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, to turn them into the ruined wasteland they are today.

Jeremiah 5:14

Therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, because you have said this— See! I make my words a fire in your mouth, And this people the wood that it shall devour!—

Lamentations 1:18

“The Lord is in the right; I had defied his command. Listen, all you peoples, and see my pain: My young women and young men have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 2:17

The Lord has done what he planned. He has fulfilled the threat Decreed from days of old, destroying without pity! He let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.

Lamentations 3:42

We have rebelled and been obstinate; you have not forgiven us.

Ezekiel 20:43

There you shall remember your ways, all the deeds by which you defiled yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves because of all the evil you did.

Ezekiel 37:11

He said to me: Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel! They are saying, “Our bones are dried up, our hope is lost, and we are cut off.”

Daniel 4:28

While these words were still on the king’s lips, a voice spoke from heaven, “It has been decreed for you, King Nebuchadnezzar, that your kingship is taken from you!

Hosea 5:9

Ephraim shall become a wasteland on the day of punishment: Among the tribes of Israel I announce what is sure to be.

Hosea 9:15

All their misfortune began in Gilgal; yes, there I rejected them. Because of their wicked deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no longer; all their princes are rebels.

Amos 9:10

All sinners among my people shall die by the sword, those who say, “Disaster will not reach or overtake us.”

Zechariah 1:7

In the second year of Darius, on the twenty-fourth day of Shebat, the eleventh month, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah, son of Berechiah, son of Iddo:

Malachi 3:18

Then you will again distinguish between the just and the wicked, Between the person who serves God, and the one who does not.

Numbers 23:19

God is not a human being who speaks falsely, nor a mortal, who feels regret. Is God one to speak and not act, to decree and not bring it to pass?

Numbers 32:23

But if you do not do this, you will have sinned against the Lord, and you can be sure that the consequences of your sin will overtake you.

Numbers 33:56

and I will treat you as I had intended to treat them.

Matthew 24:35

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. The Unknown Day and Hour.

Deuteronomy 28:15

But if you do not obey the voice of the Lord, your God, carefully observing all his commandments and statutes which I give you today, all these curses shall come upon you and overwhelm you:

Deuteronomy 28:2

All these blessings will come upon you and overwhelm you when you obey the voice of the Lord, your God:

Deuteronomy 28:20

The Lord will send on you a curse, panic, and frustration in everything you set your hand to, until you are speedily destroyed and perish for the evil you have done in forsaking me.

Deuteronomy 28:45

All these curses will come upon you, pursuing you and overwhelming you, until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord, your God, by keeping his commandments and statutes which he gave you.

1 Thessalonians 5:4

But you, brothers, are not in darkness, for that day to overtake you like a thief.