Zechariah 1:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Your fathers -- where `are' they? And the prophets -- to the age do they live?

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  • Job 14:10-12 : 10 And a man dieth, and becometh weak, And man expireth, and where `is' he? 11 Waters have gone away from a sea, And a river becometh waste and dry. 12 And man hath lain down, and riseth not, Till the wearing out of the heavens they awake not, Nor are roused from their sleep.
  • Ps 90:10 : 10 Days of our years, in them `are' seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet `is' their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.
  • Eccl 1:4 : 4 A generation is going, and a generation is coming, and the earth to the age is standing.
  • Eccl 9:1-3 : 1 But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, `are' in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole `is' before them. 2 The whole `is' as to the whole; one event is to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, and to him who is sacrificing, and to him who is not sacrificing; as `is' the good, so `is' the sinner, he who is swearing as he who is fearing an oath. 3 This `is' an evil among all that hath been done under the sun, that one event `is' to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness `is' in their heart during their life, and after it -- unto the dead.
  • Eccl 12:5 : 5 Also of that which is high they are afraid, And of the low places in the way, And the almond-tree is despised, And the grasshopper is become a burden, And want is increased, For man is going unto his home age-during, And the mourners have gone round through the street.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.
  • John 8:52 : 52 The Jews, therefore, said to him, `Now we have known that thou hast a demon; Abraham did die, and the prophets, and thou dost say, If any one may keep my word, he shall not taste of death -- to the age!
  • Acts 13:36 : 36 for David, indeed, his own generation having served by the will of God, did fall asleep, and was added unto his fathers, and saw corruption,
  • Heb 7:23-24 : 23 and those indeed are many who have become priests, because by death they are hindered from remaining; 24 and he, because of his remaining -- to the age, hath the priesthood not transient,
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this -- judgment,
  • 2 Pet 3:2-4 : 2 to be mindful of the sayings said before by the holy prophets, and of the command of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour, 3 this first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, according to their own desires going on, 4 and saying, `Where is the promise of his presence? for since the fathers did fall asleep, all things so remain from the beginning of the creation;'

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    4Ye shall not be as your fathers, To whom the former prophets called, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Turn back I pray you, From your evil ways and from your evil doings, And they did not hearken, Nor attend to Me -- an affirmation of Jehovah.

  • Zech 1:6
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    6Only, My words, and My statutes, That I commanded My servants the prophets, Have they not overtaken your fathers, And they turn back and say: As Jehovah of Hosts designed to do to us, According to our ways, and according to our doings, So He hath done to us?'

  • Jer 2:5
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    5Thus said Jehovah: What -- have your fathers found in Me perversity, That they have gone far off from Me, And go after the vanity, and become vain,

  • Jer 25:4-5
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    4And Jehovah hath sent unto you all His servants, the prophets, rising early and sending, and ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear, saying:

    5`Turn back, I pray you, each from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell on the ground that Jehovah hath given to you and to your fathers from age unto age,

  • 2 Chr 30:7
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    7and do not be like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against Jehovah, God of their fathers, and He giveth them to desolation, as ye do see.

  • Acts 7:52
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    52which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become,

  • Mal 1:6
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    6A son honoureth a father, and a servant his master. And if I `am' a father, where `is' Mine honour? And if I `am' a master, where `is' My fear? Said Jehovah of Hosts to you, O priests, despising My name! And ye have said: `In what have we despised Thy name?'

  • Joel 1:2-3
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    72%

    2Hear this, ye aged ones, And give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land, Hath this been in your days? Or in the days of your fathers?

    3Concerning it to your sons talk ye, And your sons to their sons, And their sons to another generation.

  • Jer 7:25
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    25Even from the day when your fathers Went out of the land of Egypt till this day, I send to you all my servants the prophets, Daily rising early and sending,

  • Jer 37:19
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    19And where `are' your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon doth not come in against you, and against this land?

  • Jer 44:9-10
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    71%

    9`Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, that they have done in the land of Judah, and in streets of Jerusalem?

    10They have not been humbled unto this day, nor have they been afraid, nor have they walked in My law, and in My statutes, that I have set before you and before your fathers.

  • Jer 16:11-12
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    71%

    11Then thou hast said unto them: Because that your fathers have forsaken Me, An affirmation of Jehovah, And go after other gods, and serve them, And they bow themselves to them, And Me have forsaken, and My law not kept,

    12Ye also have done evil above your fathers, And lo, ye are walking each after the stubbornness of his evil heart, So as not to hearken unto Me.

  • Jer 35:15
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    15And I send unto you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying: Turn back, I pray you, each from his evil way, and amend your doings, yea, ye do not walk after other gods, to serve them, and dwell ye on the ground that I have given to you and to your fathers; and ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto Me.

  • Lam 5:7
    71%

    7Our fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne.

  • Jer 26:5
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    5To hearken to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I am sending unto you, yea, rising early and sending, and ye have not hearkened,

  • Neh 9:34
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  • Jer 8:4
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    4And thou hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah, Do they fall, and not rise? Doth he turn back, and not return?

  • Zech 1:2
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    2`Jehovah was wroth against your fathers -- wrath!

  • Isa 8:19
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    19And when they say unto you, `Seek unto those having familiar spirits, And unto wizards, who chatter and mutter, Doth not a people seek unto its God? -- For the living unto the dead!

  • Jer 5:31
    70%

    31The prophets have prophesied falsely, And the priests bear rule by their means, And My people have loved `it' so, And what do they at its latter end?

  • Mal 3:7
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    7Even from the days of your fathers Ye have turned aside from My statutes, And ye have not taken heed. Turn back unto Me, and I turn back to you, Said Jehovah of Hosts. And ye have said, `In what do we turn back?'

  • Jer 2:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8The priests have not said, `Where `is' Jehovah?' And those handling the law have not known Me. And the shepherds transgressed against Me, And the prophets have prophesied by Baal, And after those who profit not have gone.

    9Therefore, yet I plead with you, An affirmation of Jehovah, And with your sons' sons I plead.

  • Dan 9:6
    70%

    6and we have not hearkened unto Thy servants, the prophets, who have spoken in Thy name unto our kings, our heads, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

  • Luke 11:47
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    47`Wo to you, because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

  • Jer 7:7
    70%

    7Then I have caused you to dwell in this place, In the land that I gave to your fathers, From age even unto age.

  • Lam 5:20
    70%

    20Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!

  • Hag 1:5
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    5And now, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Set your heart to your ways.

  • 2 Chr 6:31
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    31so that they fear Thee, to walk in Thy ways, all the days that they are living on the face of the ground that Thou hast given to our fathers.

  • Jer 23:37
    70%

    37Thus dost thou say unto the prophet What hath Jehovah answered thee? And what hath Jehovah spoken?

  • Jer 17:15
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    15Lo, they are saying unto me: `Where `is' the word of Jehovah? pray, let it come.'

  • Jer 5:13
    69%

    13And the prophets become wind, And the word is not in them,' -- thus it is done by them.

  • 2 Kgs 17:13
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    13And Jehovah testifieth against Israel, and against Judah, by the hand of every prophet, and every seer, saying, `Turn back from your evil ways, and keep My commands, My statutes, according to all the law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent unto you by the hand of My servants the prophets;'

  • Jer 2:30-31
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    69%

    30In vain I have smitten your sons, Instruction they have not accepted, Devoured hath your sword your prophets, As a destroying lion.

    31O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah: A wilderness have I been to Israel? A land of thick darkness? Wherefore have My people said, `We mourned, We come not in again unto Thee.'

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    4For thus said Jehovah to the house of Israel: Seek ye Me, and live,

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    7For I certainly testified against your fathers, In the day of My bringing them up out of the land of Egypt -- till this day, Rising early and testifying, saying, Hearken to My voice,

  • Isa 43:27
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    27Thy first father sinned, And thine interpreters transgressed against me,

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    26Till when is it in the heart of the prophets? The prophets of falsehood, Yea, prophets of the deceit of their heart,

  • 2 Chr 29:6
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    1At that time, an affirmation of Jehovah, They bring the bones of the kings of Judah, And the bones of its princes, And the bones of the priests, And the bones of the prophets, And the bones of inhabitants of Jerusalem, Out of their graves,

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    4Hast thou not henceforth called to Me, `My father, Thou `art' the leader of my youth?

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    31So that ye testify to yourselves, that ye are sons of them who did murder the prophets;

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    24and also all the prophets from Samuel and those following in order, as many as spake, did also foretell of these days.

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    16Instead of thy fathers are thy sons, Thou dost appoint them for princes in all the earth.

  • 1 Kgs 13:12
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    12And their father saith unto them, `Where `is' this -- the way he hath gone?' and his sons see the way that the man of God hath gone who came from Judah.