In the
eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came
the word of the Lord unto Zechariah, the son of
Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
02 The Lord hath been sore displeased with your
fathers.
03 Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the
Lord of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the Lord of
hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the Lord
of hosts.
04 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the
former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith
the Lord of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil
ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not
hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the Lord.
05 Your fathers, where are they? and the
prophets, do they live for ever?
06 But my words and my statutes, which I
commanded my servants the prophets, did they not
take hold of your fathers? and they returned and
said, Like as the Lord of hosts thought to do
unto us, according to our ways, and according to
our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
07 Upon the four and twentieth day of the
eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the
second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord
unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of
Iddo the prophet, saying,
08 I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a
red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees
that were in the bottom; and behind him were
there red horses, speckled, and white.
09 Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And
the angel that talked with me said unto me, I
will shew thee what these be.
10 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees
answered and said, These are they whom the Lord
hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.
11 And they answered the angel of the Lord that
stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have
walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold,
all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.
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12 Then the angel of the Lord answered and said,
O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not have
mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah,
against which thou hast had indignation these
threescore and ten years?
13 And the Lord answered the angel that talked
with me with good words and comfortable words.
14 So the angel that communed with me said unto
me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the Lord of
hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion
with a great jealousy.
15 And I am very sore displeased with the heathen
that are at ease: for I was but a little
displeased, and they helped forward the
affliction.
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord; I am returned
to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be
built in it, saith the Lord of hosts, and a line
shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
17 Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts;
My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread
abroad; and the Lord shall yet comfort Zion, and
shall yet choose Jerusalem.
18 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and
behold four horns.
19 And I said unto the angel that talked with me,
What be these? And he answered me, These are the
horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and
Jerusalem.
20 And the Lord shewed me four carpenters.
21 Then said I, What come these to do? And he
spake, saying, These are the horns which have
scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his
head: but these are come to fray them, to cast
out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up
their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.
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