Albert Barnes Commentary Zechariah 1:2

"Jehovah was sore displeased with your fathers." — Zechariah 1:2 (ASV)

The Lord was exceedingly angry with your fathers—that is, a wrath that was truly so, the greatness of which He does not further express, but leaves for their memories to supply. Cyril says: “Do you see how he scares them, and, by setting before the young what happened to those before them, urges them to reform, threatening them with similar or more grievous troubles, unless they wisely rejected their fathers’ ways, considering pleasing God worthy of all thought and care? He speaks of great wrath.”

For it indicates considerable displeasure that He allowed the Babylonians to devastate all Judah and Samaria, burn the holy places and destroy Jerusalem, and remove the elect Israel to a pitiful slavery in a foreign land. They were cut off from sacrifices, no longer entering the holy court nor offering the thank-offering, tithes, or first-fruits of the law, but were prevented by necessity and fear even from the duty of celebrating His prescribed and dearest festivals.

We might say something similar to the Jewish people, if we were to apply it to the mystery of Christ. For after they had killed the prophets and had crucified the Lord of glory Himself, they were captured and destroyed. Their famed temple was leveled, and Hosea’s words were fulfilled in them: The children of Israel shall abide many days without a king and without a prince, without a sacrifice and without an image, without an ephod and without teraphim.