Zechariah 1 — WEBBE
1Verse 1In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the LORD’s+word came to the prophet Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying,Verse 2“The LORD was very displeased with your fathers.Verse 3Therefore tell them, the LORD of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says the LORD of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says the LORD of Armies.Verse 4Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: The LORD of Armies says, ‘Return now from your evil ways and from your evil doings;’ but they didn’t hear nor listen to me, says the LORD.Verse 5Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?Verse 6But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’”Verse 7On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the LORD’s word came to the prophet Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying,Verse 8“I had a vision in the night, and behold,+a man riding on a red horse, and he stood amongst the myrtle trees that were in a ravine; and behind him there were red, brown, and white horses.Verse 9Then I asked, ‘My lord, what are these?’” The angel who talked with me said to me, “I will show you what these are.”Verse 10The man who stood amongst the myrtle trees answered, “They are the ones the LORD has sent to go back and forth through the earth.”Verse 11They reported to the LORD’s angel who stood amongst the myrtle trees, and said, “We have walked back and forth through the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and in peace.”Verse 12Then the LORD’s angel replied, “O LORD of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?”Verse 13The LORD answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.Verse 14So the angel who talked with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘The LORD of Armies says: “I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.Verse 15I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”Verse 16Therefore the LORD says: “I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it,” says the LORD of Armies, “and a line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.”’Verse 17“Proclaim further, saying, ‘The LORD of Armies says: “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem.”’”Verse 18I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, four horns.Verse 19I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these?” He answered me, “These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”Verse 20The LORD showed me four craftsmen.Verse 21Then I asked, “What are these coming to do?” He said, “These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations that lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”