Zechariah 1:2

THE MESSAGE

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.

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

¹In the eighth month of the second year in the reign of Darius, God 's Message came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah, son of Iddo: " God was very angry with your ancestors. So give to the people this Message from God -of-the-Angel-Armies: ‘Come back to me and I'll come back to you. Don't be like your parents. The old-time prophets called out to them, "A Message from God -of-the-Angel-Armies: Leave your evil life. Quit your evil practices." But they ignored everything I said to them, stubbornly refused to listen.' ⁵"And where are your ancestors now? Dead and buried. And the prophets who preached to them? Also dead and buried. But the Message that my servants the prophets spoke, that isn't dead and buried. That Message did its work on your ancestors, did it not? It woke them up and they came back, saying, ‘He did what he said he would do, sure enough. We didn't get by with a thing.'"

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 1:14
God spoke: "Lights! Come out! Shine in Heaven's sky! Separate Day from Night. Mark seasons and days and years, Lights in Heaven's sky to give light to Earth." And there it was.

Psalms 33:6
The skies were made by God 's command; he breathed the word and the stars popped out. He scooped Sea into his jug, put Ocean in his keg.

Isaiah 45:18
God , Creator of the heavens— he is, remember, G od. Maker of earth— he put it on its foundations, built it from scratch. He didn't go to all that trouble to just leave it empty, nothing in it. He made it to be lived in. This God says: "I am God , the one and only. I don't just talk to myself or mumble under my breath. I never told Jacob, ‘Seek me in emptiness, in dark nothingness.' I am God . I work out in the open, saying what's right, setting things right. So gather around, come on in, all you refugees and castoffs. They don't seem to know much, do they— those who carry around their no-god blocks of wood, praying for help to a dead stick? So tell me what you think. Look at the evidence. Put your heads together. Make your case. Who told you, and a long time ago, what's going on here? Who made sense of things for you? Wasn't I the one? God ? It had to be me. I'm the only God there is— The only God who does things right and knows how to help. So turn to me and be helped—saved!— everyone, whoever and wherever you are. I am God , the only God there is, the one and only. I promise in my own name: Every word out of my mouth does what it says. I never take back what I say. Everyone is going to end up kneeling before me. Everyone is going to end up saying of me, ‘Yes! Salvation and strength are in God !'" All who have raged against him will be brought before him, disgraced by their unbelief. And all who are connected with Israel will have a robust, praising, good life in God !

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.