Zechariah 1:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘The Lord was extremely angry with your ancestors. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The Lord was very angry with your fathers. American Standard Version (1901) Jehovah was sore displeased with your fathers. Common English Bible The LORD was terribly angry with your ancestors. Catholic Public Domain Version The Lord has become angry over the resentful anger of your fathers. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The Lord hath been exceeding angry with your fathers. |
because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before me, I myself have heard” #– #this is the Lord’s declaration.
In spite of all that, the Lord did not turn from the fury of his intense burning anger, which burned against Judah because of all the affronts with which Manasseh had angered him.
After all that has happened to us because of our evil deeds and terrible guilt #– #though you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have allowed us to survive , #– #
They entered and possessed it, but they did not obey you or live according to your instructions. They failed to perform all you commanded them to do, and so you have brought all this disaster on 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.
Our ancestors sinned; they no longer exist, but we bear their punishment.
So I have poured out my indignation on them and consumed them with the fire of my fury. I have brought their conduct down on their own heads.’ This is the declaration of the Lord God.
Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not show pity or spare them. Though they call loudly in my hearing, I will not listen to them.’
I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease, for I was a little angry, but they made the destruction worse.
They made their hearts like a rock so as not to obey the law or the words that the Lord of Armies had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore intense anger came from the Lord of Armies.
For the Lord of Armies says this: ‘As I resolved to treat you badly when your ancestors provoked me to anger, and I did not relent,’ says the Lord of Armies,
Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become.