Zechariah 8:14

For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Just as I resolved to bring disaster upon you when your fathers provoked Me to anger, and I did not relent,” says the LORD of Hosts,

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — The LORD of Hosts addresses Judah and Israel, contrasting His past judgment on their ancestors with His present shift toward deliverance.

The words — The Hebrew זָמַמְתִּי (za.maM.ti) translates literally as “I planned” or “I resolved,” coupled with לְהָרַע (le.ha.Ra), “to do harm.”

The thread — This declaration of unrelenting judgment aligns with Ezekiel 24:14, where God states He will act and will not refrain or show pity, and Jeremiah 4:28, which notes He has spoken and planned disaster without relenting.

Why it lands — The text records God’s past refusal to withhold disaster when ancestors provoked Him, establishing the factual basis for His current promise to save.

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The Hebrew words

כִּ֣יkifor כֹ֣הkhohthus אָמַר֮'a.Marhe says יְהוָ֣הYah.wehYahweh צְבָאוֹת֒tze.va.'Otof hosts כַּאֲשֶׁ֨רka./'a.Sherjust/ as זָמַמְ֜תִּיza.maM.tiI planned לְהָרַ֣עle./ha.Ra'to/ do harmלָכֶ֗םla./Khemto/ youבְּהַקְצִ֤יףbe./hak.Tzifwhen/ provoked to anger אֲבֹֽתֵיכֶם֙'a.vo.tei./Khemancestors/ your אֹתִ֔י'o.T/i<obj.>/ me אָמַ֖ר'a.Marhe says יְהוָ֣הYah.wehYahweh צְבָא֑וֹתtze.va.'otof hosts וְלֹ֖אve./Lo'and/ not נִחָֽמְתִּי׃ni.Cha.me.tiI relented

King James Version

For thus saith the Lord of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord of hosts, and I repented not:

Cross-references

Ezekiel 24:14 I, the LORD, have spoken; the time is coming, and I will act. I will not refrain or show pity, nor will I relent. I will judge you according to your ways and deeds,’ declares the Lord GOD.”
Jeremiah 31:28 Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, to demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 4:28 Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back.”
2 Chronicles 36:16 But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.
Psalms 33:11 The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the purposes of His heart to all generations.
Isaiah 14:24 The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.
Jeremiah 15:1 Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go!
Jeremiah 20:16 May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,
Zechariah 1:6 But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”