1In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, saying,H8066H2320H8147H8141H1867H1697H3068H2148H1121H1296H1121H5714H5030H5592"The LORD was very angry with your fathers.H3068H7110H7107H13Therefore say to them, Thus declares the LORD of hosts: Return to me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts.H559H559H3068H6635H7725H5002H3068H6635H7725H559H3068H66354Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.' But they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the LORD.H1H7223H5030H7121H559H559H3068H6635H7725H7451H1870H7451H4611H8085H7181H5002H30685Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?H1H5030H2421H57696But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? So they repented and said, As the LORD of hosts purposed to deal with us for our ways and deeds, so has he dealt with us."H1697H2706H6680H5650H5030H5381H1H7725H559H3068H6635H2161H6213H1870H4611H62137On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, saying,H702H6242H3117H6249H6240H2320H2320H7627H8147H8141H1867H1697H3068H2148H1121H1296H1121H5714H5030H5598"I saw in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in the glen, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.H7200H3915H376H7392H122H5483H5975H1918H4699H310H122H5483H8320H38369Then I said, 'What are these, my lord?' The angel who talked with me said to me, 'I will show you what they are.'H559H113H4397H1696H559H720010So the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered, 'These are they whom the LORD has sent to patrol the earth.'H376H5975H1918H6030H559H3068H7971H1980H77611And 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 remains at rest.'H6030H4397H3068H5975H1918H559H1980H776H776H3427H825212Then the angel of the LORD said, 'O LORD of hosts, how long will you have no mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which you have been angry these seventy years?'H4397H3068H6030H559H3068H6635H7355H3389H5892H3063H2194H7657H814113And the LORD answered gracious and comforting words to the angel who talked with me.H3068H6030H4397H1696H2896H1697H5150H169714So the angel who talked with me said to me, 'Cry out, Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion.H4397H1696H559H7121H559H559H3068H6635H7065H3389H6726H1419H706815And I am exceedingly angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little, they furthered the disaster.H1419H7110H7107H1471H7600H4592H7107H5826H745116Therefore, thus says the LORD, I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy; my house shall be built in it, declares the LORD of hosts, and the measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.H559H3068H7725H3389H7356H1004H1129H5002H3068H6635H6957H6961H5186H338917Cry out again, Thus says the LORD of hosts: My cities shall again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.'"H7121H559H559H3068H6635H5892H2896H6327H3068H5162H6726H977H338918And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, four horns!H5375H5869H7200H702H716119And I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these?" And he said to me, "These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem."H559H4397H1696H559H7161H2219H3063H3478H338920Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.H3068H7200H702H279621And I said, "What are these coming to do?" He said, "These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one raised his head. And these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it."H559H935H6213H559H559H7161H2219H3063H6310H376H5375H7218H935H2729H3034H7161H1471H5375H7161H776H3063H2219
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