Zechariah
Chapter One
1 ¶ In the eighth
month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah the
son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
2 "The LORD has been very angry with your fathers.
3 "Therefore say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Return to
Me," says the LORD of hosts, "and I will return to you," says
the LORD of hosts.
4 "Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets preached, saying,
'Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Turn now from your evil ways and your evil
deeds."' But they did not hear nor heed Me," says the LORD.
5 "Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
6 Yet surely My words and My statutes, Which I commanded My servants the prophets,
Did they not overtake your fathers? "So they returned and said: 'Just as
the LORD of hosts determined to do to us, According to our ways and according
to our deeds, So He has dealt with us.'"'"
7 ¶ On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month
Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah
the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet:
8 I saw by night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse, and it stood among
the myrtle trees in the hollow; and behind him were horses: red, sorrel, and
white.
9 Then I said, "My lord, what are these?" So the angel who talked
with me said to me, "I will show you what they are."
10 And the man who stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, "These
are the ones whom the LORD has sent to walk to and fro throughout the earth."
11 So they answered the Angel of the LORD, who stood among the myrtle trees,
and said, "We have walked to and fro throughout the earth, and behold,
all the earth is resting quietly."
12 Then the Angel of the LORD answered and said, "O LORD of hosts, how
long will You not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against
which You were angry these seventy years?"
13 And the LORD answered the angel who talked to me, with good and comforting
words.
14 So the angel who spoke with me said to me, "Proclaim, saying, 'Thus
says the LORD of hosts: "I am zealous for Jerusalem And for Zion with great
zeal.
15 I am exceedingly angry with the nations at ease; For I was a little angry,
And they helped-but with evil intent."
16 'Therefore thus says the LORD: "I am returning to Jerusalem with mercy;
My house shall be built in it," says the LORD of hosts, "And a surveyor's
line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem."'
17 "Again proclaim, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts: "My cities
shall again spread out through prosperity; The LORD will again comfort Zion,
And will again choose Jerusalem."'"
18 ¶ Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there were four horns.
19 And I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these?" So
he answered me, "These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel,
and Jerusalem."
20 Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.
21 And I said, "What are these coming to do?" So he said, "These
are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one could lift up his head; but
the craftsmen are coming to terrify them, to cast out the horns of the nations
that lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it."
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