Zechariah 1:4-6

Contemporary English Version

⁴ Don't be stubborn like your ancestors. They were warned by the earlier prophets^[a] to give up their evil and turn back to me, but they paid no attention.

⁵ Where are your ancestors now? Not even prophets live forever. ⁶ But my warnings and my words spoken by the prophets caught up with your ancestors. So they turned back to me and said, “Lord All-Powerful, you have punished us for our sins, just as you had planned.”