Zechariah 1:4

the former prophets have cried Rather, cried, as R.V. The reference is not to any one particular prophet or prophets, in whose writings words similar to these may be found; but to the whole body of prophets, who had preceded Zechariah and Haggai, and of whose message in the discharge of the didactic, as distinguished from the predictive function of their office, the substance is here given. Comp. Jeremiah 7:25-26.

now i.e. I pray.

unto me whose word, and not their own, the prophets spoke. Comp. Luke 10:16.