Zechariah 1:6

New Century Version

I commanded my words and laws to my servants the prophets, and they preached to your ancestors, who returned to me. They said, ‘The Lord All-Powerful did as he said he would. He punished us for the way we lived and for what we did.’ ”

Cross References

Lamentations 2:17

The Lord has done what he planned; he has kept his word that he commanded long ago. He has destroyed without mercy, and he has let your enemies laugh at you. He has strengthened your enemies.

Deuteronomy 28:15

But if you do not obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands and laws I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and stay:

Matthew 24:35

Earth and sky will be destroyed, but the words I have said will never be destroyed.

Jeremiah 23:20

The Lord’s anger will not stop until he finishes what he plans to do. When that day is over, you will understand this clearly.

Amos 9:10

All the sinners among my people will die by the sword— those who say, ‘Nothing bad will happen to us.’

Jeremiah 44:28

A few will escape being killed by the sword and will come back to Judah from Egypt. Then, of the people of Judah who came to live in Egypt, those who are left alive will know if my word or their word came true.

Numbers 23:19

God is not a human being, and he will not lie. He is not a human, and he does not change his mind. What he says he will do, he does. What he promises, he makes come true.

1 Thessalonians 5:4

But you, brothers and sisters, are not living in darkness, and so that day will not surprise you like a thief.

Malachi 3:18

You will again see the difference between good and evil people, between those who serve God and those who don’t.

Hosea 9:15

“The Israelites were very wicked in Gilgal, so I have hated them there. Because of the sinful things they have done, I will force them to leave my land. I will no longer love them; their leaders have turned against me.

Ezekiel 37:11

Then he said to me, “Human, these bones are like all the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has gone. We are destroyed.’

Ezekiel 20:43

There you will remember everything you did that made you unclean, and then you will hate yourselves for all the evil things you have done.

Lamentations 1:18

Jerusalem says, “The Lord is right, but I refused to obey him. Listen, all you people, and look at my pain. My young women and men have gone into captivity.

Jeremiah 26:15

But be sure of one thing. If you kill me, you will be guilty of killing an innocent person. You will make this city and everyone who lives in it guilty, too! The Lord truly sent me to you to give you this message.”

Jeremiah 4:4

Give yourselves to the service of the Lord, and decide to obey him, people of Judah and people of Jerusalem. If you don’t, my anger will spread among you like a fire, and no one will be able to put it out, because of the evil you have done.

Isaiah 55:1

The Lord says, “All you who are thirsty, come and drink. Those of you who do not have money, come, buy and eat! Come buy wine and milk without money and without cost.

Isaiah 44:26

I make the messages of my servants come true; I make the advice of my messengers come true. I say to Jerusalem, ‘People will live in you again!’ I say to the towns of Judah, ‘You will be built again!’ I say to Jerusalem’s ruins, ‘I will repair you.’

Job 6:29

Change your mind; do not be unfair; think again, because my innocence is being questioned.

Deuteronomy 28:45

All these curses will come upon you. They will chase you and catch you and destroy you, because you did not obey the Lord your God and keep the commands and laws he gave you.

Deuteronomy 28:20

The Lord will send you curses, confusion, and punishment in everything you do. You will be destroyed and suddenly ruined because you did wrong when you left him.

Numbers 33:56

Then I will punish you as I had planned to punish them.’ ”

Numbers 32:23

“But if you don’t do these things, you will be sinning against the Lord; know for sure that you will be punished for your sin.

Deuteronomy 28:2

Obey the Lord your God so that all these blessings will come and stay with you:

Isaiah 21:17

At that time only a few of the archers, the soldiers of Kedar, will be left alive.” The Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.

Jeremiah 5:14

So this is what the Lord God All-Powerful says: “The people said I would not punish them. So, the words I give you will be like fire, and these people will be like wood that it burns up.

Jeremiah 32:24

“Look! The enemy has surrounded the city and has built roads to the top of the walls to capture it. Because of war, hunger, and terrible diseases, the city will be handed over to the Babylonians who are attacking it. You said this would happen, and now you see it is happening.

Jeremiah 36:28

“Get another scroll. Write all the words on it that were on the first scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah burned up.

Jeremiah 39:16

“Jeremiah, go and tell Ebed-Melech the Cushite this message: ‘This is what the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, says: Very soon I will make my words about Jerusalem come true through disaster, not through good times. You will see everything come true with your own eyes.

Jeremiah 44:29

I will give you a sign that I will punish you here in Egypt,’ says the Lord. ‘When you see it happen, you will know that my promises to hurt you will really happen.’

Daniel 4:28

All these things happened to King Nebuchadnezzar.

Hosea 5:9

Israel will be ruined on the day of punishment. To the tribes of Israel I tell the truth.

Zechariah 1:7

It was on the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month of Shebat, in Darius’s second year as king. The Lord spoke his word to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, who was the son of Iddo.

2 Kings 15:12

The Lord had told Jehu: “Your sons down to your great-great-grandchildren will be kings of Israel,” and the Lord’s word came true.

Isaiah 55:11

The same thing is true of the words I speak. They will not return to me empty. They make the things happen that I want to happen, and they succeed in doing what I send them to do.

Jeremiah 28:17

Hananiah died in the seventh month of that same year.

Jeremiah 44:2

“The Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, says: You saw all the terrible things I brought on Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, which are ruins today with no one living in them.

Jeremiah 44:6

So I showed my great anger against them. I poured out my anger in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem so they are only ruins and piles of stones today.

Lamentations 3:42

“We have sinned and turned against you, and you have not forgiven us.