Zechariah 1:16

¹⁶Therefore thus saith the Lord: I will return to Jerusalem in mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the Lord of hosts: and the building line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.

Zechariah 1 opens with a call to repentance and a series of eight night visions that launch the prophet's ministry to post-exilic Judah. The chapter establishes the book's central tension: God's people have returned from Babylon but remain spiritually sluggish, living under Persian

References· Zechariah 1

a: v.3 — Jeremiah 3:22, Malachi 3:7, Joel 2:12, Deuteronomy 30:2-10, Jeremiah 4:1, Hosea 6:1, Isaiah 31:6, Jeremiah 12:15, Luke 15:18-22, James 4:8-10

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