Zechariah 1:2

Bible in Basic English

The Lord has been very angry with your fathers:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“The Lord was extremely angry with your ancestors.

Hebrew Names Version
"The LORD was very displeased with your fathers.

King James Version (1611)
The Lord hath bene sore displeased with your fathers.

King James Version
The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers.

English Standard Version
"The Lord was very angry with your fathers.

New American Standard Bible
"The LORD was very angry with your fathers.

New Century Version
"The Lord was very angry with your ancestors.

Amplified Bible
"The LORD was extremely angry with your fathers.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The Lord hath bene sore displeased with your fathers.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The LORD was very angry with your fathers.

Legacy Standard Bible
"Yahweh was very wrathful against your fathers.

Berean Standard Bible
"The LORD was very angry with your forefathers.

Contemporary English Version
Israel, I, the Lord All-Powerful, was very angry with your ancestors. But if you people will return to me, I will turn and help you.

Complete Jewish Bible
" Adonai was extremely angry with your ancestors.

Darby Translation
Jehovah hath been very wroth with your fathers.

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord became very angry with your ancestors.

George Lamsa Translation
The LORD was very angry with your fathers.

Good News Translation
The Lord Almighty told Zechariah to say to the people, "I, the Lord , was very angry with your ancestors,

Lexham English Bible
"Yahweh was very angry with your ancestors.

Literal Translation
With wrath Jehovah has been angry with your fathers.

American Standard Version
Jehovah was sore displeased with your fathers.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
'The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The Lorde hath ben sore displeased with your forefathers.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The Lord has been very angry with your fathers.

English Revised Version
The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers.

World English Bible
"Yahweh was very displeased with your fathers.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
profete, and seide, The Lord is wrooth on youre fadris with wrathfulnesse.

Update Bible Version
Yahweh was very displeased with your fathers.

Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD hath been greatly displeased with your fathers.

New English Translation
The Lord was very angry with your ancestors.

New King James Version
"The LORD has been very angry with your fathers.

New Living Translation
"I, the Lord , was very angry with your ancestors.

New Life Bible
"The Lord was very angry with your fathers.

New Revised Standard
The Lord was very angry with your ancestors.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yahweh, was sore displeased, with your fathers:

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord hath been exceeding angry with your fathers.

Revised Standard Version
"The LORD was very angry with your fathers.

Young's Literal Translation
`Jehovah was wroth against your fathers -- wrath!

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The LORDE hath bene sore displeased at youre forefathers.

Contextual Overview

¹ In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, ² The Lord has been very angry with your fathers: ³ And you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord of armies: Come back to me, says the Lord of armies, and I will come back to you. ⁴ Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord. ⁵ Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever? ⁶ But my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the prophets, have they not overtaken your fathers? and turning back they said, As it was the purpose of the Lord of armies to do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so has he done.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Lord: 2 Kings 22:16, 2 Kings 22:17, 2 Kings 22:19, 2 Kings 23:26, 2 Chronicles 36:13-20, Ezra 9:6, Ezra 9:7, Ezra 9:13, Nehemiah 9:26, Nehemiah 9:27, Psalms 60:1, Psalms 79:5, Psalms 79:6, Jeremiah 44:6, Lamentations 1:12-15, Lamentations 2:3-5, Lamentations 3:42-45, Lamentations 5:7, Ezekiel 22:31, Daniel 9:11, Daniel 9:12, Zephaniah 2:1-3, Matthew 23:30-32, Acts 7:52

sore displeased: Heb. with displeasure

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 15:12 - all the idols Jeremiah 32:23 - but Ezekiel 20:18 - the statutes Ezekiel 33:4 - whosoever heareth Haggai 2:17 - yet Zechariah 1:15 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 1:12
And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:14
And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:

Job 26:7
By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.

Job 26:14
See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.

Psalms 33:6
By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the army of heaven by the breath of his mouth.

Isaiah 45:18
For this is the word of the Lord who made the heavens; he is God; the maker and designer of the earth; who made it not to be a waste, but as a living-place for man: I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Nahum 2:10
Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers. Who lived before and at the time of the destruction of the city of Jerusalem, and which was manifest by their captivity; all which were occasioned by their sins, with which they provoked the Lord to sore displeasure against them; and this is mentioned as a caution to their children, that they might not follow their example, and incur the like displeasure.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wroth was the Lord against your fathers with wrath - ^o, that is, a wrath which was indeed such, whose greatness he does not further express, but leaves to their memories to supply. Cyril: “Seest thou how he scares them, and, setting before the young what befell those before them, drives them to amend, threatening them with the like or more grievous ills, unless they would wisely reject their fathers’ ways, esteeming the pleasing of God worthy of all thought and care. He speaks of great wrath. For it indicates no slight displeasure that He allowed the Babylonians to waste all Judah and Samaria, burn the holy places and destroy Jerusalem, remove the elect Israel to a piteous slavery in a foreign land, severed from sacrifices, entering the holy court no more nor offering the thank-offering, or tithes, or first-fruits of the law, but precluded by necessity and, fear even from the duty of celebrating his prescribed and dearest festivals. The like we might address to the Jewish people, if we would apply it to the mystery of Christ. For after they had “killed the prophets” and had “crucified the Lord of glory” Himself, they were captured and destroyed; their famed temple was levelled, and Hosea’s words were fulfilled in them; “The children of Israel shall abide many days without a king and without a prince, without a sacrifice and without an image, without an ephod and without teraphim” .

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 1:2. The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers. — For their ingratitude idolatry, iniquity, and general rebellion.