Zechariah 1:5

God asks pointedly: the fathers and even the prophets have died, but His word endures. Human generations pass, yet God's word outlasts them all.

Cross-references · 11

• 2 Pet 3:2–4by recalling what was foretold by the holy prophets and commanded by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.
• Eccl 12:5when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels—for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.
• Job 14:10–12But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
• Heb 9:27Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
• Eccl 12:7before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
• Ps 90:10The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
• Acts 13:36For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay.
• Eccl 9:1–3So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.
• John 8:52“Now we know that You have a demon!” declared the Jews. “Abraham died, and so did the prophets, yet You say that anyone who keeps Your word will never taste death.
• Heb 7:23–24Now there have been many other priests, since death prevented them from continuing in office.
• Eccl 1:4Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.

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