Zechariah 1:15

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“but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity.’”

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BSBPD

“but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity.’”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And I am very sore displeased with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And <FI>with<Fi> great wrath I am wroth against the nations who are at ease, For I was a little wroth, and they assisted--for evil.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Zechariah 1:15 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 30:13They tear up my path; they profit from my destruction, with no one to restrain them.
  2. Psalms 69:26For they persecute the one You struck and recount the pain of those You wounded.
  3. Psalms 83:2See how Your enemies rage, how Your foes have reared their heads.
  4. Psalms 123:4We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.
  5. Psalms 137:7Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”
  6. Isaiah 10:5Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
  7. Isaiah 47:6I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.
  8. Isaiah 54:8In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.
  9. Jeremiah 30:16Nevertheless, all who devour you will be devoured, and all your adversaries—every one of them— will go off into exile. Those who plundered you will be plundered, and all who raided you will be raided.
  10. Jeremiah 48:11Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his flavor has remained the same, and his aroma is unchanged.
  11. Jeremiah 50:33This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “The sons of Israel are oppressed, and the sons of Judah as well. All their captors hold them fast, refusing to release them.
  12. Jeremiah 51:24Before your very eyes I will repay Babylon and all the dwellers of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Zion,” declares the LORD.
  13. Jeremiah 51:34“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.
  14. Ezekiel 25:3Tell the Ammonites to hear the word of the Lord GOD, for this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you exclaimed, “Aha!” when My sanctuary was profaned, when the land of Israel was laid waste, and when the house of Judah went into exile,
  15. Ezekiel 25:12This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Edom acted vengefully against the house of Judah, and in so doing incurred grievous guilt,
  16. Ezekiel 26:2“Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken; it has swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will be filled,’
  17. Ezekiel 29:6Then all the people of Egypt will know that I am the LORD. For you were only a staff of reeds to the house of Israel.
  18. Ezekiel 36:4therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become a spoil and a mockery to the rest of the nations around you.
  19. Amos 1:3This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they threshed Gilead with sledges of iron.
  20. Amos 6:1Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.
  21. Obadiah 1:10Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.
  22. Habakkuk 3:12You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.
  23. Zechariah 1:2“The LORD was very angry with your fathers.
  24. Zechariah 1:11And the riders answered the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees, “We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and tranquil.”

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