Zechariah 1:2

Easy-to-Read Version

The Lord became very angry with your ancestors.

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.

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.

Bible in Basic English
The Lord has been very angry 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 Zechariah son of Berekiah received a message from the Lord . This was in the eighth month of the second year that Darius was king in Persia. (Zechariah was the son of Berekiah, who was the son of Iddo the prophet.) This is that message: ² The Lord became very angry with your ancestors. ³ So you must tell the people what the Lord All-Powerful says, "Come back to me, says the Lord All-Powerful, and I will come back to you." This is what the Lord All-Powerful said. ⁴ "Don't be like your ancestors. In the past the prophets spoke to them and said, ‘The Lord All-Powerful wants you to change your evil way of living. Stop doing evil things!' But your ancestors did not listen to me." This is what the Lord said. ⁵ "Your ancestors are gone, and those prophets did not live forever. ⁶ The prophets were my servants. I used them to tell your ancestors about my laws and teachings. Your ancestors finally learned their lesson and said, ‘The Lord All-Powerful did what he said he would do. He punished us for the way we lived and for all the evil things we did.' So they came back to God."

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
The earth grew grass and plants that made grain. And it grew trees that made fruit with seeds in it. Every plant made its own kind of seeds. And God saw that this was good.

Genesis 1:14
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the sky. These lights will separate the days from the nights. They will be used for signs to show when special meetings begin and to show the days and years.

Job 26:7
God stretched the northern sky over empty space. He hung the earth on nothing.

Job 26:14
These are only a few of the amazing things God has done. We hear only a small whisper of God's thundering power."

Psalms 33:6
The Lord spoke the command, and the world was made. The breath from his mouth created everything in the heavens.

Isaiah 45:18
The Lord is God. He made the skies and the earth. He put the earth in its place. He did not want the earth to be empty when he made it. He created it to be lived on. "I am the Lord . There is no other God.

Nahum 2:10
Now Nineveh is empty. Everything is stolen. The city is ruined. People have lost their courage, their hearts melt with fear, their knees knock together, their bodies shake, and their faces turn pale.

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.