Zechariah 7:4

English Standard Version

Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then the word of the Lord of Armies came to me:

Hebrew Names Version
Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying,

King James Version (1611)
Then came the word of the Lord of hosts vnto me, saying,

King James Version
Then came the word of the Lord of hosts unto me, saying,

New American Standard Bible
Then the word of the LORD of armies came to me, saying,

New Century Version
The Lord All-Powerful spoke his word to me, saying,

Amplified Bible
Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me (Zechariah), saying,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then came the word of the Lord of hostes vnto me, saying,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then the word of Yahweh of hosts came to me, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying,

Contemporary English Version
It was then that the Lord All-Powerful told me to say to everyone in the country, including the priests: For seventy years you have gone without eating during the fifth and seventh months of the year. But did you really do it for me?

Complete Jewish Bible
It was then that this message came to me from Adonai -Tzva'ot:

Darby Translation
And the word of Jehovah of hosts came unto me, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
I received this message from the Lord All-Powerful:

George Lamsa Translation
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Good News Translation
This is the message of the Lord that came to me.

Lexham English Bible
And the word of Yahweh of hosts came to me, saying,

Literal Translation
The Word of Jehovah of Hosts was to me, saying,

American Standard Version
Then came the word of Jehovah of hosts unto me, saying,

Bible in Basic English
Then the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then came the worde of the Lorde of hoastes vnto me, saying:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying,

English Revised Version
Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,

World English Bible
Then the word of Yahweh of Hosts came to me, saying,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the word of the Lord was maad to me,

Update Bible Version
Then the word of Yahweh of hosts came to me, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
Then came the word of the LORD of hosts to me, saying,

New English Translation
The word of the Lord who rules over all then came to me,

New King James Version
Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

New Living Translation
The Lord of Heaven's Armies sent me this message in reply:

New Life Bible
Then the Word of the Lord of All came to me saying,

New Revised Standard
Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then came the word of Yahweh of hosts unto me, saying:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying:

Revised Standard Version
Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me;

Young's Literal Translation
And there is a word of Jehovah of Hosts unto me, saying:

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then came the worde of the LORDE of hoostes vnto me, sayenge:

THE MESSAGE
God -of-the-Angel-Armies gave me this Message for them, for all the people and for the priests: "When you held days of fasting every fifth and seventh month all these seventy years, were you doing it for me? And when you held feasts, was that for me? Hardly. You're interested in religion, I'm interested in people.

Contextual Overview

¹ In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev. ² Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men to entreat the favor of the Lord , ³ saying to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and the prophets, "Should I weep and abstain in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?" ⁴ Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me: ⁵ "Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted? ⁶ And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves? ⁷ Were not these the words that the Lord proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous, with her cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?'"

Bible Verse Review
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Lord of hosts: Isaiah 10:16

Cross-References

Genesis 2:5
When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground,

Genesis 6:3
Then the Lord said, "My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years."

Genesis 6:7
So the Lord said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them."

Genesis 6:13
And God said to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Genesis 6:17
For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.

Genesis 7:10
And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.

Genesis 7:12
And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:17
The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.

Genesis 7:21
And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then came the word of the Lord of hosts unto me, saying. Upon the sending of this embassy, and upon putting this question.