Zec 1:3-6 | ESV | STEP | Therefore say to them, Thus declares the Lord of hosts : Return to me, says the Lord of hosts , and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts .

a Isa. 31:6; Jer. 3:1, 22; Ezek. 18:30; Mal. 3:7

b Jer. 12:15; Mic. 7:19

c[Ps. 78:8]

dSee 2 Chr. 36:15

e[See ver. 3 above]

f ch. 7:11; 2 Chr. 36:16; See Jer. 35:15

g[John 8:52]

h[Isa. 40:8; Matt. 24:35]

iSee Dan. 9:6

Zechariah 1:3-6

3 Therefore say to them, Thus declares the Lord of hosts: ^aReturn to me, says the Lord of hosts, and ^bI will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. 4 ^cDo not be like your fathers, ^dto whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, ^eReturn from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But ^fthey did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord. 5 Your fathers, where are they? And ^gthe prophets, do they live forever? 6 ^hBut my words and my statutes, which I commanded ⁱmy servants the prophets, did they not ^jovertake your fathers? So they repented and said, ^k‘As the Lord of hosts purposed to deal with us for ^lour ways and ^mdeeds, so has he dealt with us.’”