Zechariah 1
1In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah the prophet, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo saying,H8066H2320H8147H8141H1867H1697H3068H2148H1121H1296H1121H5714H5030H5592"The LORD was very angry with your fathers.H3068H7110H7107H13"Therefore say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts," Return to Me, "declares the LORD of hosts," that I may return to you, "says the LORD of hosts.H559H559H3068H6635H7725H5002H3068H6635H7725H559H3068H66354"Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts," Return now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds. "'But they did not listen or give heed to Me," declares the LORD.H1H7223H5030H7121H559H559H3068H6635H7725H7451H1870H7451H4611H8085H7181H5002H30685"Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?H1H5030H2421H57696"But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? Then they repented and said, ' As the LORD of hosts purposed to do to us in accordance with our ways and our deeds, so He has dealt with us. '"'"H1697H2706H6680H5650H5030H5381H1H7725H559H3068H6635H2161H6213H1870H4611H62137On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah the prophet, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, as follows:H702H6242H3117H6249H6240H2320H2320H7627H8147H8141H1867H1697H3068H2148H1121H1296H1121H5714H5030H5598I saw at night, and behold, a man was riding on a red horse, and he was standing among the myrtle trees which were in the ravine, with red, sorrel, and white horses behind him.H7200H3915H376H7392H122H5483H5975H1918H4699H310H122H5483H8320H38369Then I said, "My lord, what are these?" And the angel who was speaking with me said to me, "I will show you what these are."H559H113H4397H1696H559H720010And the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered and said, "These are those whom the LORD has sent to patrol the earth."H376H5975H1918H6030H559H3068H7971H1980H77611So they answered the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees, and said, "We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth is peaceful and quiet."H6030H4397H3068H5975H1918H559H1980H776H776H3427H825212Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, "O LORD of hosts, how long wilt Thou have no compassion for Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which Thou hast been indignant these seventy years?"H4397H3068H6030H559H3068H6635H7355H3389H5892H3063H2194H7657H814113And the LORD answered the angel who was speaking with me with gracious words, comforting words.H3068H6030H4397H1696H2896H1697H5150H169714So the angel who was speaking with me said to me, "Proclaim, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts," I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and Zion.H4397H1696H559H7121H559H559H3068H6635H7065H3389H6726H1419H706815"But I am very angry with the nations who are at ease; for while I was only a little angry, they furthered the disaster."H1419H7110H7107H1471H7600H4592H7107H5826H745116'Therefore, thus says the LORD, "I will return to Jerusalem with compassion; My house will be built in it," declares the LORD of hosts, "and a measuring line will be stretched over Jerusalem."'H559H3068H7725H3389H7356H1004H1129H5002H3068H6635H6957H6961H5186H338917"Again, proclaim, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts," My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem. "'"H7121H559H559H3068H6635H5892H2896H6327H3068H5162H6726H977H338918Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, [there were] four horns.H5375H5869H7200H702H716119So I said to the angel who was speaking with me, "What are these?" And he answered me," These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem. "H559H4397H1696H559H7161H2219H3063H3478H338920Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.H3068H7200H702H279621And I said, "What are these coming to do?" And he said, "These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man lifts up his head; but these [craftsmen] have come to terrify them, to throw down the horns of the nations who have lifted up [their] horns against the land of Judah in order to scatter it."H559H935H6213H559H559H7161H2219H3063H6310H376H5375H7218H935H2729H3034H7161H1471H5375H7161H776H3063H2219
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