Zechariah 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.’”

Nu 23:19; Nu 32:23; Nu 33:56; De 28:15,45; De 28:20; 2Ch 36:17-21; Job 6:29; Isa 3:8-11; Isa 44:26; Isa 55:1; Jer 4:4; Jer 12:16; Jer 18:8-11; Jer 23:20; Jer 26:15; Jer 44:28; La 1:18; La 2:17; La 4:11,12; Eze 12:25-28; Eze 20:43; Eze 37:11; Da 9:11,12; Ho 2:6-11; Ho 9:15; Am 9:10; Mal 3:18; Mt 24:35; 1Th 5:4

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.”