Zechariah 1:6 - Exposition

My words . The words that God put into the mouths of the prophets ( Jeremiah 39:16 ; Lamentations 2:17 ). Statutes, usually applied to the Law, which the prophets had to announce and enforce; but it may mean "decrees" which God appointed ( Zephaniah 2:2 ). The LXX . inserts "receive ye" to govern these nouns. I commanded. The LXX . adds, ἐν πνεύματὶ μου , "by my inspiration." Did they not take hold of your fathers? Did they not overtake, etc.? Did not their threatened chastisements, however long delayed, reach your fathers in the end? And they returned; turned, as Zechariah 1:3 , Zechariah 1:4 . They turned so far as to acknowledge that the threats had been fully accomplished (see Daniel 9:5 ; Ezra 9:6 , etc.). Thought to do; παρατέτακται , "designed, purposed to do" (comp. Lamentations 2:17 ).