Zechariah 1 (TRV)

From Textus Receptus

• 1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

• 2 “The LORD has been very displeased with your fathers.

• 3 Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of armies: “Turn to Me,” says the LORD of armies, “and I will turn to you,” says the LORD of armies.

• 4 “Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets shouted out, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD of armies: “Turn now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.” ’ But they did not hear nor listen to Me,” says the LORD.

• 5 “Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

• 6 But My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not grip your fathers? “And they returned and said: ‘Just as the LORD of armies thought to do to us, according to our ways and according to our deeds, so He has dealt with us.’ ” ’ ”

• 7 On 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 Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying:

• 8 I saw by night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees in the bottom; and behind him were red horses, speckled, and white.

• 9 Then I said, “Oh My lord, what are these?” So the angel who talked with me said to me, “I will show you what they are.”

• 10 And the man who stood among the myrtle trees replied and said, “These are the ones whom the LORD has sent to walk to and fro through the earth.”

• 11 And they replied to the angel of the LORD, who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, “We have walked to and fro through the earth, and behold, all the earth sits still and is resting.”

• 12 Then the angel of the LORD replied and said, “O LORD of hosts, how long will You not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which You have had indignation these seventy years?”

• 13 And the LORD answered the angel who talked with me, with good words and comforting words.

• 14 So the angel who communicated me with said to me, “Shout, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts: “I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.

• 15 I am very displeased with the nations who are at ease; because, I was a little displeased, and they helped advance the affliction.”

• 16 ‘Therefore thus says the LORD: “I have returned to Jerusalem with mercies; My house will be built in it,” says the LORD of hosts, “And a measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.” ’

• 17 “Shout again, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: “My cities will again spread out through prosperity; and the LORD will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem.” ’ ”

• 18 Then I lifted up my eyes and saw, and beheld four horns.

• 19 And I said to the angel who talked with me, “What are these?” And he answered me, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”

• 20 And the LORD showed me four craftsmen.

• 21 And I said, “What are these coming to do?” So he spoke saying, “These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one could lift up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast out the horns of the nations that lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”