Zechariah 1:4
Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.
KJV
Ne sitis sicut patres vestri, ad quos clamabant prophetæ priores, dicentes : Hæc dicit Dominus exercituum : Convertimini de viis vestris malis, et de cogitationibus vestris pessimis : et non audierunt, neque attenderunt ad me, dicit Dominus.
Vulgate
καὶ μὴ γίνεσθε καθὼς οἱ πατέρες ὑμῶν, οἷς ἐνεκάλεσαν αὐτοῖς οἱ προφῆται ἔμπροσθεν λέγοντες Τάδε λέγει Κύριος Παντοκράτωρ Ἀποστρέψατε ἀπὸ τῶν ὁδῶν ὑμῶν τῶν πονηρῶν καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐπιτηδευμάτων ὑμῶν τῶν πονηρῶν· καὶ οὐκ εἰσήκουσαν, καὶ οὐ προσέσχον τοῦ εἰσακοῦσαί μου, λέγει Κύριος.
LXX
Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Return ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith Jehovah.
ASV
אַל תִּהְי֣וּ כַ/אֲבֹֽתֵי/כֶ֡ם אֲשֶׁ֣ר קָרְאֽוּ אֲלֵי/הֶם֩ הַ/נְּבִיאִ֨ים הָ/רִֽאשֹׁנִ֜ים לֵ/אמֹ֗ר כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת שׁ֤וּבוּ נָא֙ מִ/דַּרְכֵי/כֶ֣ם הָ/רָעִ֔ים ו/מעלילי/כם וּ/מַֽעֲלְלֵי/כֶ֖ם הָֽ/רָעִ֑ים וְ/לֹ֥א שָׁמְע֛וּ וְ/לֹֽא הִקְשִׁ֥יבוּ אֵלַ֖/י נְאֻם יְהוָֽה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
21 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Pet 1:18 — Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
- 2Chr 36:15 — And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
- 2Chr 36:21 — To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
- Dan 9:6 — Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
- Ezek 33:11 — Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die,
- Hos 9:17 — My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
- Isa 1:16 — Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
- Isa 30:9 — That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
- Isa 43:27 — Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.
- Jer 11:6 — Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.
- Jer 15:7 — And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.
- Jer 23:22 — But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
- Jer 25:5 — They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
- Jer 29:19 — Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.
- Jer 35:15 — I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve
- John 15:16 — Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he ma
- Luke 13:34 — O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and
- Matt 3:8 — Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
- Matt 23:37 — O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her
- Prov 5:12 — And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
- Prov 12:19 — The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
- Ps 78:8 — And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
- Ps 106:6 — We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
- Zech 1:3 — Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.
- Zech 7:11 — But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.