The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers.
The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers. God fulfilled His threats against your fathers; beware, then, lest by disregarding his voice by me, as they did in the case of former prophets, ye suffer like them. The special object Zechariah aims at, is that they should awake from their selfish negligence, to obey God's command to rebuild His temple (Haggai 1:4-8).
Sore displeased - Hebrew, 'displeased with a displeasure,' - i:e., vehemently, with no common displeasure, exhibited in the destruction of the Jews' city and in their captivity.