Matthew Poole and continuators on Zechariah 1:4

4 Be ye not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have cryed , saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, turn ye now from your evil wayes , and from your evil doings : but they did not hear , nor hearken unto me , saith the LORD.

You who have seen the sorrows of a long Captivity, who are wonderfully brought back, who are under the teachings of Rod and Staff.

All the former Prophets, 2 Chron. 36.15, 16.

Preached earnestly, frequently, and compassionately.

Now to day, yet before 'tis too late: O! turn from vitious, sinful courses and wayes; from your Atheism, Idolatry, Murthers, Oppressions, and Adulteries.

It is repeated that it might be more impressive upon them. The Prophets importunately intreated them to cease from evil, Isa. 1.16. and 31.6. Ier. 3.12. Ezek. 18.30. and Hos. 14.1.

They did not, because they would not, they regarded not what I said by my Prophets, neither could they be perswaded to it.

This obstinate disobedience is twice together charged on them, to make their sin appear in its greatness.

Marginal references: Jer. 18.11.