Zechariah 1:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Be ye; you who have seen the sorrows of a long captivity, who are wonderfully brought back, who are under the teachings of rod and staff. The former prophets; all the former prophets, 2 Chronicles 36:15,16. Cried; preached earnestly, frequently, and compassionately. Turn ye now from your evil ways; now, to-day, yet before it is too late, O turn from vicious, sinful courses and ways; from your atheism, idolatry, murders, oppressions, and adulteries. And from your evil doings: it is repeated that it might be more impressive upon them. The prophets importunately entreated them to cease from evil, Isaiah 1:16, Isaiah 31:6 Jeremiah 3:12 Ezekiel 18:30 Hosea 14:1. They did not hear; they did not because they would not, they regarded not what I said by my prophets, neither could they be persuaded to it. Nor hearken unto me: this obstinate disobedience is twice together charged on them, to make their sin appear in its greatness.