Zechariah 1:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then the angel of the Lord, answering, said, O Lord of armies, how long will it be before you have mercy on Jerusalem and on the towns of Judah against which your wrath has been burning for seventy years?

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  • Ps 102:13 : 13 You will again get up and have mercy on Zion: for the time has come for her to be comforted.
  • Jer 29:10 : 10 For this is what the Lord has said: When seventy years are ended for Babylon, I will have pity on you and give effect to my good purpose for you, causing you to come back to this place.
  • Dan 9:2 : 2 In the first year of his rule, I, Daniel, saw clearly from the books the number of years given by the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah, in which the making waste of Jerusalem was to be complete, that is, seventy years.
  • Zech 7:5 : 5 Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?
  • Ps 74:10 : 10 O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?
  • Rev 6:10 : 10 And they gave a great cry, saying, How long will it be, O Ruler, holy and true, before you take your place as judge and give punishment for our blood to those on the earth?
  • Heb 7:25 : 25 So that he is fully able to be the saviour of all who come to God through him, because he is ever living to make prayer to God for them.
  • Exod 23:20-23 : 20 See, I am sending an angel before you, to keep you on your way and to be your guide into the place which I have made ready for you. 21 Give attention to him and give ear to his voice; do not go against him; for your wrongdoing will not be overlooked by him, because my name is in him. 22 But if you truly give ear to his voice, and do whatever I say, then I will be against those who are against you, fighting those who are fighting you. 23 And my angel will go before you, guiding you into the land of the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, and they will be cut off by my hand.
  • 2 Chr 36:21 : 21 So that the words of the Lord, which he said by the mouth of Jeremiah, might come true, till the land had had pleasure in her Sabbaths; for as long as she was waste the land kept the Sabbath, till seventy years were complete.
  • Ps 69:5 : 5 O God, you see how foolish I am; and my wrongdoing is clear to you.
  • Zech 1:8 : 8 I saw in the night a man on a red horse, between the mountains in the valley, and at his back were horses, red, black, white, and of mixed colours.
  • Zech 1:10-11 : 10 And the man who was between the mountains, answering me, said, These are those whom the Lord has sent to go up and down through the earth. 11 And the man who was between the mountains, answering, said to the angel of the Lord, We have gone up and down through the earth, and all the earth is quiet and at rest.
  • Isa 63:9 : 9 It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.
  • Isa 64:9-9 : 9 Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls. 10 Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers gave praise to you, is burned with fire; and all the things of our desire have come to destruction. 11 In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment? 12 []
  • Jer 25:11-12 : 11 All this land will be a waste and a cause of wonder; and these nations will be the servants of the king of Babylon for seventy years. 12 And it will come about, after seventy years are ended, that I will send punishment on the king of Babylon, and on that nation, says the Lord, for their evil-doing, and on the land of the Chaldaeans; and I will make it a waste for ever.

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  • Zech 1:13-17
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    82%

    13 And the Lord gave an answer in good and comforting words to the angel who was talking to me.

    14 And the angel who was talking to me said to me, Let your voice be loud and say, These are the words of the Lord of armies: I am greatly moved about the fate of Jerusalem and of Zion.

    15 And I am very angry with the nations who are living untroubled: for when I was only a little angry, they made the evil worse.

    16 So this is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Jerusalem with mercies; my house is to be put up in her, says the Lord of armies, and a line is to be stretched out over Jerusalem.

    17 And again let your voice be loud and say, This is what the Lord of armies has said: My towns will again be overflowing with good things, and again the Lord will give comfort to Zion and take Jerusalem for himself.

  • Zech 1:9-11
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    77%

    9 Then I said, O my lord, what are these? And the angel who was talking to me said to me, I will make clear to you what they are.

    10 And the man who was between the mountains, answering me, said, These are those whom the Lord has sent to go up and down through the earth.

    11 And the man who was between the mountains, answering, said to the angel of the Lord, We have gone up and down through the earth, and all the earth is quiet and at rest.

  • 2 Sam 24:16
    75%

    16 And when the hand of the angel was stretched out in the direction of Jerusalem, for its destruction, the Lord had regret for the evil, and said to the angel who was sending destruction on the people, It is enough; do no more. And the angel of the Lord was by the grain-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

  • 1 Chr 21:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15 And God sent an angel to Jerusalem for its destruction: and when he was about to do so, the Lord saw, and had regret for the evil, and said to the angel of destruction, It is enough; do no more. Now the angel of the Lord was by the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

    16 And David, lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the Lord there between earth and heaven, with an uncovered sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the responsible men, clothed in haircloth, went down on their faces.

  • Ps 80:4
    73%

    4 O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?

  • Isa 6:11
    73%

    11 Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men, and the land becomes completely waste,

  • Zech 2:2-4
    3 verses
    71%

    2 And I said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these? And he said to me, These are the horns which have sent Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem in flight.

    3 And the Lord gave me a vision of four metal-workers.

    4 Then I said, What have these come to do? And he said, These are the horns which sent Judah in flight, and kept him from lifting up his head: but these men have come to send fear on them and to put down the nations who are lifting up their horns against the land of Judah to send it in flight.

  • Dan 9:16
    71%

    16 O Lord, because of your righteousness, let your wrath and your passion be turned away from your town Jerusalem, your holy mountain: because, through our sins and the evil-doing of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a cause of shame to all who are round about us.

  • Jer 3:12
    70%

    12 Go, and give out these words to the north, and say, Come back, O Israel, though you have been turned away from me, says the Lord; my face will not be against you in wrath: for I am full of mercy, says the Lord, I will not be angry for ever.

  • Jer 15:5
    70%

    5 For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? and who will have sorrow for you? or who will go out of his way to see how you are?

  • Zech 4:4-5
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    70%

    4 And I made answer and said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these, my lord?

    5 Then the angel who was talking to me, answering me, said, Have you no knowledge of what these are? And I said, No, my lord.

  • Jer 14:19
    69%

    19 Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.

  • Jer 4:14
    69%

    14 O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?

  • Dan 9:12
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    12 And he has given effect to his words which he said against us and against those who were our judges, by sending a great evil on us: for under all heaven there has not been done what has been done to Jerusalem.

  • Jer 25:11-12
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    69%

    11 All this land will be a waste and a cause of wonder; and these nations will be the servants of the king of Babylon for seventy years.

    12 And it will come about, after seventy years are ended, that I will send punishment on the king of Babylon, and on that nation, says the Lord, for their evil-doing, and on the land of the Chaldaeans; and I will make it a waste for ever.

  • Isa 64:12
    69%

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  • Isa 30:19
    69%

    19 O people, living in Zion, at Jerusalem, your weeping will be ended; he will certainly have mercy on you at the sound of your cry; when it comes to his ear, he will give you an answer.

  • Joel 3:1
    69%

    1 And after that, it will come about, says the Lord, that I will send my spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, your old men will have dreams, your young men will see visions:

  • Dan 9:2
    69%

    2 In the first year of his rule, I, Daniel, saw clearly from the books the number of years given by the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah, in which the making waste of Jerusalem was to be complete, that is, seventy years.

  • Jer 44:6
    69%

    6 Because of this, my passion and my wrath were let loose, burning in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are waste and unpeopled as at this day.

  • Zech 8:1
    69%

    1 And the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying,

  • Lam 1:17
    69%

    17 Zion's hands are outstretched; she has no comforter; the Lord has given orders to the attackers of Jacob round about him: Jerusalem has become like an unclean thing among them.

  • Jer 29:10
    69%

    10 For this is what the Lord has said: When seventy years are ended for Babylon, I will have pity on you and give effect to my good purpose for you, causing you to come back to this place.

  • Zech 7:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3 And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in past years?

    4 Then the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying

  • Ps 79:5
    68%

    5 How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? will your wrath go on burning like fire?

  • Zech 8:14-15
    2 verses
    68%

    14 For this is what the Lord of armies has said: As it was my purpose to do evil to you when your fathers made me angry, says the Lord of armies, and my purpose was not changed:

    15 So in these days it is again my purpose to do good to Jerusalem and to the children of Judah: have no fear.

  • Zech 1:2
    68%

    2 The Lord has been very angry with your fathers:

  • Zech 6:4
    68%

    4 And I made answer and said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these, my lord?

  • Jer 32:31
    68%

    31 For this town has been to me a cause of wrath and of burning passion from the day of its building till this day, so that I put it away from before my face:

  • Ezek 40:1
    68%

    1 In the twenty-fifth year after we had been taken away prisoners, in the first month of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the town was taken, on the very same day, the hand of the Lord was on me, and he took me there.

  • 1 Chr 21:12
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    12 Three years when there will not be enough food; or three months of war, when you will go in flight before your haters, being in great danger of the sword; or three days of the sword of the Lord, disease in the land, and the angel of the Lord taking destruction through all the land of Israel. Now give thought to the answer I am to take back to him who sent me.

  • Ps 90:13
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    13 Come back, O Lord; how long? let your purpose for your servants be changed.

  • 2 Kgs 18:35
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    35 Who among all the gods of these countries have kept their country from falling into my hands, to give cause for the thought that the Lord will keep Jerusalem from falling into my hands?

  • 2 Chr 36:21
    68%

    21 So that the words of the Lord, which he said by the mouth of Jeremiah, might come true, till the land had had pleasure in her Sabbaths; for as long as she was waste the land kept the Sabbath, till seventy years were complete.

  • Ezek 9:4
    68%

    4 The Lord said to him, Go through the town, through the middle of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the brows of the men who are sorrowing and crying for all the disgusting things which are done in it.

  • Jer 13:9
    68%

    9 The Lord has said, In this way I will do damage to the pride of Judah and to the great pride of Jerusalem.