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Zechariah 1:5

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

KJV

Patres vestri, ubi sunt ? et prophetæ numquid in sempiternum vivent ?

Vulgate

οἱ πατέρες ὑμῶν, ποῦ εἰσιν; καὶ οἱ προφῆται, μὴ τὸν αἰῶνα ζήσονται;

LXX

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

ASV

אֲבֽוֹתֵי/כֶ֖ם אַיֵּה הֵ֑ם וְ/הַ֨/נְּבִאִ֔ים הַ/לְ/עוֹלָ֖ם יִֽחְיֽוּ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אַיֵּ֖ה
'yh
pronoun · 47×
הֵ֖מָּה
hmh
pronoun · 560×
ו
v
noun · 1201×
נִי
ny
verb · 264×
נָּבִ֖יא
nby'
noun · 316×
עוֹלָֽם
'vlm
noun · 427×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Pet 3:2 — That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
  • Deut 18:22 — When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt
  • Eccl 1:4 — One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
  • Eccl 12:5 — Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth
  • Eccl 12:7 — Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
  • Heb 9:27 — And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
  • Jer 36:28 — Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.
  • Job 14:10 — But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
  • Lam 5:7 — Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
  • Ps 90:10 — The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.