Zechariah 1:1-13 ▼

1 In the eighth month, in the second year to Darius, was the word of Jehovah to Zechariah son of Barachiah, son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

2 Jehovah was angry with our fathers with anger.

3 And thou saidst to them, Thus said Jehovah of armies: Turn back to me, says Jehovah of armies, and I will turn back to you, said Jehovah of armies.

4 Ye shall not be as your fathers which the former prophets called to them, saying, Thus, said Jehovah of armies: Turn back now from your evil ways and your evil doings: and they heard not, and they attended not to me, says Jehovah.

5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, shall they live forever?

6 But the words and the laws which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not reach your fathers? and they will turn back and say, As Jehovah of armies purposed to do to us according to our ways and according to our doings, so he did with us.

7 In the twenty and fourth day to the eleventh month, this the month Sabat, in the second year to Darius, was the word of Jehovah to Zechariah, son of Barachiah, son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

8 I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood The hard copy spelling records the following as: beweenbetween the myrtles which were in shady place; and after him red horses, bay, and white.

9 And saying, What these, my lord? And the messenger speaking with me, will say to me, I will cause thee to see what these are?

10 And the man standing between the myrtles will answer and say, These which Jehovah sent to go about in the earth.

11 And they will answer the messenger of Jehovah standing between the myrtles, and they will say, We walked about in the earth, and behold, all the earth sat and rested.

12 And the messenger of Jehovah will answer and say, O Jehovah of armies, how long wilt thou not compassionate Jerusalem and the cities of Judah with whom thou wert very angry this seventy years?

13 And Jehovah will answer the messenger speaking with me good words, consoling words.