Zechariah 1

¹ In the eighth monthmonth, in the secondsecond year of Darius, came the wordthe word of the LORDthe LORD unto ZechariahZechariah, the sonson of Berechiah, the sonson of Iddo the prophetprophet, saying,

² The LORDThe LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathersfathers.

³ Therefore saysay thou unto them, Thus saithsaith the LORD of hostsLORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saithsaith the LORD of hostsLORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saithsaith the LORD of hostsLORD of hosts.

⁴ Be ye not as your fathersfathers, unto whom the former prophetsprophets have cried, saying, Thus saithsaith the LORD of hostsLORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evilevil waysways, and from your evilevil doings: but they did not hearhear, nor hearkenhearken unto me, saithsaith the LORDthe LORD.

⁵ Your fathersfathers, where are they? and the prophetsprophets, do they live for everever?

⁶ But my wordswords and my statutes, which I commandedcommanded my servantsservants the prophetsprophets, did they not take hold of your fathersfathers? and they returnedreturned and saidsaid, Like as the LORD of hostsLORD of hosts thought to do unto usus, according to our waysways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with usus.

⁷ Upon the fourfour and twentiethtwentieth day ofday of the eleventh monthmonth, which is the monthmonth Sebat, in the secondsecond year of Darius, came the wordthe word of the LORDthe LORD unto ZechariahZechariah, the sonson of Berechiah, the sonson of Iddo the prophetprophet, saying,

⁸ I sawsaw by nightnight, and behold a manman ridingriding upon a red horsered horse, and he stoodstood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behindbehind him were there red horseshorses, speckled, and whitewhite.

⁹ Then saidsaid I, O my lordmy lord, what are these? And the angelangel that talked with me saidsaid unto me, I will shewshew thee what these be.

¹⁰ And the manman that stoodstood among the myrtle trees answeredanswered and saidsaid, These are they whom the LORDthe LORD hath sentsent to walk to and fro through the earthearth.

¹¹ And they answeredanswered the angelangel of the LORDthe LORD that stoodstood among the myrtle trees, and saidsaid, We have walkedwalked to and fro through the earthearth, and, behold, all the earthearth sitteth stillstill, and is at rest.

¹² Then the angelangel of the LORDthe LORD answeredanswered and saidsaid, O LORD of hostsLORD of hosts, how longlong wilt thou not have mercy on JerusalemJerusalem and on the citiescities of JudahJudah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?

¹³ And the LORDthe LORD answeredanswered the angelangel that talked with me with goodgood wordswords and comfortable wordswords.

¹⁴ So the angelangel that communed with me saidsaid unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saithsaith the LORD of hostsLORD of hosts; I am jealousjealous for JerusalemJerusalem and for ZionZion with a greatgreat jealousyjealousy.

¹⁵ And I am very sore displeased with the heathenheathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the afflictionaffliction.

¹⁶ Therefore thus saithsaith the LORDthe LORD; I am returnedreturned to JerusalemJerusalem with mercies: my househouse shall be builtbuilt in it, saithsaith the LORD of hostsLORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretchedstretched forth upon JerusalemJerusalem.

¹⁷ Cry yet, saying, Thus saithsaith the LORD of hostsLORD of hosts; My citiescities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORDthe LORD shall yet comfortcomfort Zion, and shall yet choose JerusalemJerusalem.

¹⁸ Then liftedlifted I up mine eyeseyes, and sawsaw, and behold fourfour hornshorns.

¹⁹ And I saidsaid unto the angelangel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the hornshorns which have scattered JudahJudah, IsraelIsrael, and JerusalemJerusalem.

²⁰ And the LORDthe LORD shewed me fourfour carpenterscarpenters.

²¹ Then saidsaid I, What comecome these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the hornshorns which have scattered JudahJudah, so that no manman did liftlift up his headhead: but these are comecome to fray them, to cast out the hornshorns of the GentilesGentiles, which liftedlifted up their hornhorn over the landland of JudahJudah to scatter it.