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, See also: Nehemiah 12:4 Matthew 23:35 Ezra 4:24 Haggai 1:1 Zechariah 1:7
2 The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers. See also: Jeremiah 44:6 Psalms 79:5-6 Lamentations 5:7 Ezekiel 22:31 Zephaniah 2:1-3
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. See also: Jeremiah 3:22 Malachi 3:7 Joel 2:12 Deuteronomy 30:2-10 Jeremiah 4:1
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. See also: Psalms 78:8 Psalms 106:6-7 Jeremiah 35:15 Ezekiel 33:11 2 Chronicles 36:15-16
5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? See also: Ecclesiastes 12:5 2 Peter 3:2-4 Job 14:10-12 Psalms 90:10 Ecclesiastes 12:7
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. See also: Lamentations 2:17 Ezekiel 12:25-28 Deuteronomy 28:15 Jeremiah 23:20 Matthew 24:35
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, See also: Zechariah 1:1
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. See also: Revelation 6:4 Isaiah 55:13 Isaiah 41:19 Zechariah 13:7 Revelation 2:1
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. See also: Zechariah 4:4-5 Revelation 7:13-14 Genesis 31:11 Daniel 9:22-23 Zechariah 1:19
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. See also: Zechariah 1:11 Zechariah 6:5-8 Hebrews 1:14 Job 1:7 Job 2:1-2
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. See also: Zechariah 1:10 Psalms 103:20-21 Zechariah 1:8 Zechariah 1:15 Matthew 24:30-31
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? See also: Psalms 74:10 Psalms 102:13 Jeremiah 29:10 Daniel 9:2 Zechariah 7:5
13 And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words. See also: Isaiah 40:1-2 Jeremiah 29:10 Jeremiah 30:10-22 Jeremiah 31:3-14 Amos 9:11-15
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. See also: Joel 2:18 Isaiah 40:6 Isaiah 40:1 Zechariah 1:9 Zechariah 1:17
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. See also: Jeremiah 51:24 Ezekiel 25:12-17 Isaiah 54:8 Isaiah 47:6-9 Psalms 69:26
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. See also: Zechariah 8:3 Ezra 6:14-15 Ezekiel 37:24-28 Zechariah 2:10-11 Job 38:5
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. See also: Isaiah 51:3 Zechariah 2:12 2 Chronicles 6:6 Psalms 69:35 Isaiah 14:1
18 ¶ Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns. See also: Joshua 5:13 2 Kings 24:1-20 Daniel 8:3-14 Zechariah 5:9 2 Kings 15:29
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. See also: Ezra 4:4 Zechariah 1:21 Zechariah 2:2 Zechariah 8:14 Ezra 4:1
20 And the LORD shewed me four carpenters. See also: Zechariah 10:3-5 Zechariah 9:12-16 Zechariah 12:2-6 Deuteronomy 33:25 Judges 11:16
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. See also: Psalms 75:10 Psalms 75:4-5 Lamentations 2:17 Zechariah 1:19 Daniel 12:7