Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
statutes—My determined purposes to punish for sin.
which I commanded my servants—namely, to announce to your fathers.
did they not take hold—that is, overtake, as a foe overtakes one fleeing.
they returned—Turning from their former self-satisfaction, they recognized their punishment as that which God's prophets had foretold.
thought to do—that is, decreed to do. Compare with this verse Lamentations 2:17.
our ways—evil ways (Jeremiah 4:18; Jeremiah 17:10; Jeremiah 23:2).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Zechariah 1:6:
Zechariah 1:5
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