Zechariah 1

^aIn the eighth month, ^abin the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord unto Zechariah, ^cthe son of Berechiah, ^cthe son of ^dIddo the prophet, saying,

²The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers.

³Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts;

^efTurn ye unto me, saith the Lord of hosts,

And ^egI will turn unto you, saith the Lord of hosts.

^4hBe ye not as your fathers, ⁱunto whom the former prophets have cried, saying,

Thus saith the Lord of hosts; ^fkTurn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings:

But ^lthey did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the Lord.

^5moYour fathers, ⁿwhere are they?

And ^othe prophets, do they live for ever?

^6pBut my words and my statutes, which I commanded ^qmy servants the prophets,

Did they not take hold of your fathers?

And they returned and said, ^rLike as the Lord of hosts thought to do unto us,

According to our ^sways, and according to our ^sdoings, so hath he dealt with us.

⁷Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month ^tSebat, ^bin the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord unto Zechariah, ^cthe son of Berechiah, the son of ^dIddo the prophet, saying, ⁸I saw by night, and behold ^ua man ^vriding upon a red horse, and he stood among ^wthe myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there ^xred horses, speckled, and white. ⁹Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And ^uthe angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be. ¹⁰And ^uthe man that stood among ^wthe myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom ^ythe Lord hath sent ^zto walk to and fro through the earth. ¹¹And they answered ^uthe angel of the Lord that stood among ^wthe myrtle trees, and said, ^zWe have walked to and fro through the earth, and behold, all the earth sitteth still, and ^zzis at rest. ¹²Then ^uthe angel of the Lord answered and said, ^aO Lord of hosts, ^bhow long ^awilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, ^cagainst which thou hast had indignation ^dthese threescore and ten years? ¹³And the Lord answered the angel that talked with me with ^egood words and ^fcomfortable words. ¹⁴So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying,

Thus saith the Lord of hosts;

I ^gam jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.

¹⁵And ^hI am very sore displeased with the heathen that are ⁱat ease:

For I was but ^ja little displeased, and ^kthey helped forward the affliction.

¹⁶Therefore thus saith the Lord; ^lI am returned to Jerusalem ^mwith mercies:

ⁿMy house shall be built in it, saith the Lord of hosts,

And ^oa line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.

¹⁷Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts;

My ^pcities through prosperity shall yet ^qbe spread abroad;

And ^rthe Lord shall yet ^fcomfort Zion,

And ^sshall yet choose Jerusalem.

¹⁸Then lift I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold ^tfour horns. ¹⁹And I said unto ^uthe angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, ^vThese are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem. ²⁰And the Lord shewed me four ^wcarpenters. ²¹Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, ^vThese are the horns which have scattered Judah, ^xso that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to ^yfray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which ^zlift up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.

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