A Call to Return to the Lord--1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, saying, 2 -The Lord was very angry with your fathers. 3 Therefore say to them, Thus declares the Lord of hosts- Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. 4 Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, -Thus says the Lord of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.' But they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord. 5 Your fathers, where are they- And the prophets, do they live forever- 6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers- So they repented and said, -As the Lord of hosts purposed to deal with us for our ways and deeds, so has he dealt with us.'-