Zechariah 1:6
1:6 But have my words and statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, not outlived your fathers? 1 Then they paid attention 2 and confessed, ‘The Lord who rules over all has indeed done what he said he would do to us, because of our sinful ways.’”
Zechariah 1:21
1:21 I asked, “What are these going to do?” He answered, “These horns are the ones that have scattered Judah so that there is no one to be seen. 3 But the blacksmiths have come to terrify Judah’s enemies 4 and cut off the horns of the nations that have thrust themselves against the land of Judah in order to scatter its people.” 5
Zechariah 11:6
11:6 Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land,” says the Lord, “but instead I will turn every last person over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from them.”
Zechariah 11:16
11:16 Indeed, I am about to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not take heed to the sheep headed to slaughter, will not seek the scattered, and will not heal the injured. 6 Moreover, he will not nourish the one that is healthy but instead will eat the meat of the fat sheep 7 and tear off their hooves.
Zechariah 14:2
14:2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem 8 to wage war; the city will be taken, its houses plundered, and the women raped. Then half of the city will go into exile, but the remainder of the people will not be taken away. 9
Zechariah 14:12
14:12 But this will be the nature of the plague with which the Lord will strike all the nations that have fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will decay while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot away in their sockets, and their tongues will dissolve in their mouths.
1 tc BHS suggests אֶתְכֶם (’etkhem, “you”) for the MT אֲבֹתֵיכֶם (’avotekhem, “your fathers”) to harmonize with v. 4. In v. 4 the ancestors would not turn but in v. 6 they appear to have done so. The subject in v. 6, however, is to be construed as Zechariah’s own listeners.
2 tn Heb “they turned” (so ASV). Many English versions have “they repented” here; cf. CEV “they turned back to me.”
3 tn Heb “so that no man lifts up his head.”
4 tn Heb “terrify them”; the referent (Judah’s enemies) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “to scatter it.” The word “people” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
6 tn Heb “the broken” (so KJV, NASB; NRSV “the maimed”).
7 tn Heb “the fat [ones].” Cf. ASV “the fat sheep”; NIV “the choice sheep.”
8 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
9 tn Heb “not be cut off from the city” (so NRSV); NAB “not be removed.”