1In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo:H8066H2320H8147H8141H1867H1697H3068H2148H1121H1296H1121H5714H5030H5592"The LORD was very angry with your ancestors.H3068H7110H7107H13Therefore tell the people: This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'Return to me,' declares the LORD Almighty, 'and I will return to you,' says the LORD Almighty.H559H559H3068H6635H7725H5002H3068H6635H7725H559H3068H66354Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'Turn from your evil ways and your evil practices.' But they would not listen or pay attention to me, declares the LORD.H1H7223H5030H7121H559H559H3068H6635H7725H7451H1870H7451H4611H8085H7181H5002H30685Where are your ancestors now? And the prophets, do they live forever?H1H5030H2421H57696But did not my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, overtake your ancestors? "Then they repented and said, 'The LORD Almighty has done to us what our ways and practices deserve, just as he determined to do.' "H1697H2706H6680H5650H5030H5381H1H7725H559H3068H6635H2161H6213H1870H4611H62137On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo.H702H6242H3117H6249H6240H2320H2320H7627H8147H8141H1867H1697H3068H2148H1121H1296H1121H5714H5030H5598During the night I had a vision, and there before me was a man mounted on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in a ravine. Behind him were red, brown and white horses.H7200H3915H376H7392H122H5483H5975H1918H4699H310H122H5483H8320H38369I asked, "What are these, my lord?" The angel who was talking with me answered, "I will show you what they are."H559H113H4397H1696H559H720010Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, "They are the ones the LORD has sent to go throughout the earth."H376H5975H1918H6030H559H3068H7971H1980H77611And they reported to the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees, "We have gone throughout the earth and found the whole world at rest and in peace."H6030H4397H3068H5975H1918H559H1980H776H776H3427H825212Then the angel of the LORD said, "LORD Almighty, how long will you withhold mercy from Jerusalem and from the towns of Judah, which you have been angry with these seventy years?"H4397H3068H6030H559H3068H6635H7355H3389H5892H3063H2194H7657H814113So the LORD spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who talked with me.H3068H6030H4397H1696H2896H1697H5150H169714Then the angel who was speaking to me said, "Proclaim this word: This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion,H4397H1696H559H7121H559H559H3068H6635H7065H3389H6726H1419H706815and I am very angry with the nations that feel secure. I was only a little angry, but they added to the calamity.'H1419H7110H7107H1471H7600H4592H7107H5826H745116"Therefore, this is what the LORD says: 'I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there my house will be rebuilt. And the measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem,' declares the LORD Almighty.H559H3068H7725H3389H7356H1004H1129H5002H3068H6635H6957H6961H5186H338917"Proclaim further: This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'My towns will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.' "H7121H559H559H3068H6635H5892H2896H6327H3068H5162H6726H977H338918Then I looked up, and there before me were four horns.H5375H5869H7200H702H716119I asked the angel who was speaking to me, "What are these?" He answered me, "These are the horns that scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem."H559H4397H1696H559H7161H2219H3063H3478H338920Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.H3068H7200H702H279621I asked, "What are these coming to do?" He answered, "These are the horns that scattered Judah so its people could not raise their heads, but the craftsmen have come to terrify them and throw down these horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter its people."H559H935H6213H559H559H7161H2219H3063H6310H376H5375H7218H935H2729H3034H7161H1471H5375H7161H776H3063H2219