Zechariah 7:4

Hebrew Names Version

Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying,

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
I received this message from the Lord All-Powerful:

New American Standard Bible
Then the word of the LORD of armies came to me, saying,

New Century Version
The Lord All-Powerful spoke his word to me, saying,

Update Bible Version
Then the word of Yahweh of hosts came to me, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
Then came the word of the LORD of hosts to me, saying,

Amplified Bible
Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me (Zechariah), saying,

English Standard Version
Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me:

World English Bible
Then the word of Yahweh of Hosts came to me, saying,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the word of the Lord was maad to me,

English Revised Version
Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying,

Contemporary English Version
It was then that the Lord All-Powerful told me to say to everyone in the country, including the priests: For seventy years you have gone without eating during the fifth and seventh months of the year. But did you really do it for me?

American Standard Version
Then came the word of Jehovah of hosts unto me, saying,

Bible in Basic English
Then the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying

Complete Jewish Bible
It was then that this message came to me from Adonai -Tzva'ot:

Darby Translation
And the word of Jehovah of hosts came unto me, saying,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying:

King James Version (1611)
Then came the word of the Lord of hosts vnto me, saying,

New Living Translation
The Lord of Heaven's Armies sent me this message in reply:

New Life Bible
Then the Word of the Lord of All came to me saying,

New Revised Standard
Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me:

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then came the word of the Lord of hostes vnto me, saying,

George Lamsa Translation
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then came the word of Yahweh of hosts unto me, saying:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying:

Revised Standard Version
Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then came the worde of the Lorde of hoastes vnto me, saying:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying,

Good News Translation
This is the message of the Lord that came to me.

Christian Standard Bible®
Then the word of the Lord of Armies came to me:

King James Version
Then came the word of the Lord of hosts unto me, saying,

Lexham English Bible
And the word of Yahweh of hosts came to me, saying,

Literal Translation
The Word of Jehovah of Hosts was to me, saying,

Young's Literal Translation
And there is a word of Jehovah of Hosts unto me, saying:

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then came the worde of the LORDE of hoostes vnto me, sayenge:

THE MESSAGE
God -of-the-Angel-Armies gave me this Message for them, for all the people and for the priests: "When you held days of fasting every fifth and seventh month all these seventy years, were you doing it for me? And when you held feasts, was that for me? Hardly. You're interested in religion, I'm interested in people.

New English Translation
The word of the Lord who rules over all then came to me,

New King James Version
Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then the word of Yahweh of hosts came to me, saying,

Contextual Overview

¹ It happened in the fourth year of king Daryavesh that the word of the LORD came to Zekharyah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Kislev. ² The people of Beit-El sent Sar'etzer and Regem-Melekh, and their men, to entreat the LORD's favor, ³ and to speak to the Kohanim of the house of the LORD of Hosts, and to the prophets, saying, "Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?" ⁴ Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying, ⁵ "Speak to all the people of the land, and to the Kohanim, saying, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me? ⁶ When you eat, and when you drink, don't you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? ⁷ Aren't these the words which the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets, when Yerushalayim was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?'"

Bible Verse Review
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Lord of hosts: Isaiah 10:16

Cross-References

Genesis 2:5
No plant of the field was yet in the eretz, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the eretz. There was not a man to till the ground,

Genesis 6:3
The LORD said, "My spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."

Genesis 6:7
The LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."

Genesis 6:13
God said to Noach, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the eretz is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the eretz.

Genesis 6:17
I, even, I do bring the flood of waters on this eretz, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the eretz will die.

Genesis 7:10
It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the eretz.

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noach's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.

Genesis 7:12
The rain was on the eretz forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:17
The flood was forty days on the eretz. The waters increased, and lifted up the teivah, and it was lifted up above the eretz.

Genesis 7:21
All flesh died that moved on the eretz, including birds, cattle, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the eretz, and every man.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then came the word of the Lord of hosts unto me, saying. Upon the sending of this embassy, and upon putting this question.