King James VersionZechariah1

Zechariah

1 In the eighth month, in the sec­ond year of Dar­ius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechari­ah, the son of Berechi­ah, the son of Iddo the prophet, say­ing, 2 The LORD hath been sore dis­pleased with your fa­thers. 3 There­fore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. 4 Be ye not as your fa­thers, unto whom the for­mer prophets have cried, say­ing, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil do­ings: but they did not hear, nor hear­ken unto me, saith the LORD. 5 Your fa­thers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ev­er? 6 But my words and my statutes, which I com­mand­ed my ser­vants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fa­thers? and they re­turned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, ac­cord­ing to our ways, and ac­cord­ing to our do­ings, so hath he dealt with us. 7 Upon the four and twen­ti­eth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Se­bat, in the sec­ond year of Dar­ius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechari­ah, the son of Berechi­ah, the son of Iddo the prophet, say­ing, 8 I saw by night, and be­hold a man rid­ing upon a red horse, and he stood among the myr­tle trees that were in the bot­tom; and be­hind him were there red hors­es, speck­led, and white. 9 Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the an­gel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be. 10 And the man that stood among the myr­tle trees an­swered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth. 11 And they an­swered the an­gel of the LORD that stood among the myr­tle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, be­hold, all the earth sit­teth still, and is at rest. 12 Then the an­gel of the LORD an­swered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mer­cy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Ju­dah, against which thou hast had in­dig­na­tion these three­score and ten years? 13 And the LORD an­swered the an­gel that talked with me with good words and com­fort­able words. 14 So the an­gel that com­muned with me said unto me, Cry thou, say­ing, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jeal­ous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jeal­ousy. 15 And I am very sore dis­pleased with the hea­then that are at ease: for I was but a lit­tle dis­pleased, and they helped for­ward the af­flic­tion. 16 There­fore thus saith the LORD; I am re­turned to Jerusalem with mer­cies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem. 17 Cry yet, say­ing, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through pros­per­i­ty shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet com­fort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem. 18 Then lift­ed I up mine eyes, and saw, and be­hold four horns. 19 And I said unto the an­gel that talked with me, What be these? And he an­swered me, These are the horns which have scat­tered Ju­dah, Is­rael, and Jerusalem. 20 And the LORD shewed me four car­pen­ters. 21 Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, say­ing, These are the horns which have scat­tered Ju­dah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gen­tiles, which lift­ed up their horn over the land of Ju­dah to scat­ter it.