Zechariah 1:7–17

⁷On the twenty and fourth day of the eleventh month, (it is the month of Sebat,) in the second year of Darius, hath a word of Jehovah been unto Zechariah, son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, the prophet, saying: ⁸I have seen by night, and lo, one riding on a red horse, and he is standing between the myrtles that are in the shade, and behind him are horses, red, bay, and white. ⁹And I say, ‘What are these, my lord?’ And the messenger who is speaking with me saith unto me, ‘I—I do shew thee what these are.’ ¹⁰And the one who is standing between the myrtles doth answer and say, ‘These are they whom Jehovah hath sent to walk up and down in the land.’ ¹¹And they answer the messenger of Jehovah who is standing between the myrtles, and say, ‘We have walked up and down in the land, and lo, all the land is sitting still, and at rest.’ ¹²And the messenger of Jehovah answereth and saith, ‘Jehovah of Hosts! till when dost Thou not pity Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, that Thou hast abhorred these seventy years?’ ¹³And Jehovah answereth the messenger, who is speaking with me, good words, comfortable words. ¹⁴And the messenger who is speaking with me, saith unto me, ‘Call, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: I have been zealous for Jerusalem, and for Zion with great zeal. ¹⁵And with great wrath I am wroth against the nations who are at ease, For I was a little wroth, and they assisted—for evil. ¹⁶Therefore, thus said Jehovah: I have turned to Jerusalem with mercies, My house is built in it, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And a line is stretched over Jerusalem. ¹⁷Again call, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Again do my cities overflow from good, And Jehovah hath again comforted Zion, And He hath fixed again on Jerusalem.’