Zechariah

TKJU^{(i) 1} In the eighth month, in 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 severely displeased with your fathers. ³ Therefore say you to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts; "Turn to Me", says the LORD of hosts, "and I will turn to you", says the LORD of hosts. ⁴ "Do not be as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have cried out, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts; "Turn now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings, all of you" ': But they did not hear, nor hearken to Me", says the LORD. ⁵ "Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? ⁶ 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, 'As the LORD of hosts thought to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, in this manner He has dealt with us.' " ⁷ On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, ⁸ "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 there were red horses, speckled, and white." ⁹ Then I said, "O my lord, what are these?" And the angel that talked with me said to me, "I will show you what these are." ¹⁰ And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, "These are those whom the LORD has 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 sits still, and is at rest." 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 have had indignation these past seventy 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 to me, "Cry out, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts; "I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy. ¹⁵ And I am very sorely displeased with the heathen that are at ease: For I was only a little displeased, and they helped advance the affliction." ¹⁶ Therefore thus says the LORD; "I have returned to Jerusalem with mercies: My house shall be built in it", says the LORD of hosts, "and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem." ' ¹⁷ Cry out at this time, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts; "Through prosperity My cities shall be spread abroad even still; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem." ¹⁸ Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold four horns. ¹⁹ And I said to the angel that talked with me, "What are these?" And he answered me, "These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem." ²⁰ And the LORD showed me four carpenters. ²¹ Then I said, "What have these come to do?" And he spoke, saying, "These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head: But these have 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."