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Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

Zechariah 1:5 · WEB

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ગુજરાતીઝખાર્યા ૧:૫
“તમારા પિતૃઓ ક્યાં છે? અને પ્રબોધકો શું સદા જીવે છે?
हिन्दीजकर्याह १:५
तुम्हारे पुरखा कहाँ रहे? भविष्यद्वक्ता क्या सदा जीवित रहते हैं?

In context

3Therefore tell them, the LORD of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says the LORD of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says the LORD of Armies.

4Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: The LORD of Armies says, ‘Return now from your evil ways and from your evil doings;’ but they didn’t hear nor listen to me, says the LORD.

5Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

6But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’”

7On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the LORD’s word came to the prophet Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying,

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