Zechariah 1:15

But I am deeply angry with the arrogant, complacent nations. I was only a little angry with Israel but they made the suffering worse.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

14So the messenger who was talking with me said to me, “Proclaim now that the Lord of hosts says: I am deeply concerned for Jerusalem.

16Therefore, says the Lord, I am turning to show mercy to Jerusalem. My temple will be rebuilt in it, says the Lord of hosts, and a measuring line will be stretched over Jerusalem.

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Cross References

Psalms 69:26For those whom you struck, they persecute, and those whom you wounded, they pain yet more.

Psalms 123:4More than enough have we borne of derision from those at their ease, of scorn from those who are haughty.

Matthew Henry on Zechariah 1:8-18

The Vision of the Horse and Myrtles; Intercession for Jerusalem. ( b. c. 520.) 7 Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, 8 I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white. 9 Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And… Read the whole commentary →

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