Return to Me

1In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah son of Berechiah, son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

2Yahweh was very angry with your fathers.

3Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts: Return to me,’ declares Yahweh of hosts, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of hosts.

4Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, “Thus says Yahweh of hosts: Turn back, please, from your evil ways and your evil deeds.” But they did not listen or pay attention to me, declares Yahweh.

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

6But did not my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? Then they turned back and said, ‘As Yahweh of Armies planned to do to us, according to our ways and according to our deeds, so he has dealt with us.’