Zechariah 1:5
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Zechariah 1:5 in other translations
| BSB | Where are your fathers now? And the prophets, do they live forever? |
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| WEB | Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? |
| ASV | Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? |
| YLT | Your fathers--where are they? And the prophets--to the age do they live? |
| DARBY | Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? |
| BBE | Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever? |
| Webster | Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? |
What does Zechariah 1:5 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Zechariah 1:1-6
God's almighty power and sovereign dominion, should engage and encourage sinners to repent and turn to Him. It is very desirable to have the Lord of hosts for our friend, and very dreadful to have him for our enemy. Review what is past, and observe the message God sent by his servants, the prophets, to your fathers. Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings. Be persuaded to leave your sins, as the…
Zechariah 1:5 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Zechariah 1:5
- 2 Peter 3:2-4
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: Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
- Ecclesiastes 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 to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
- Psalms 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.
- Hebrews 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
- Ecclesiastes 12:7
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
- Job 14:10-12
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
- Ecclesiastes 1:4
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
- John 8:52
Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.
- Acts 13:36
For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
- Ecclesiastes 9:1-3
For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them. All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath. This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
- Hebrews 7:23-24
And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
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Context
- 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.
- Zechariah 1:5
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
- Zechariah 1:6
But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the Lord of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
Zechariah 1:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Vuestros padres, ¿dónde están? y los profetas ¿han de vivir para siempre? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Vos pères, où sont-ils? et les prophètes, ont-ils vécu à toujours? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Eure Väter, wo sind sie? und die Propheten, leben sie ewiglich? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Patres vestri, ubi sunt? et prophetæ numquid in sempiternum vivent? |