Zechariah 1:10-21 ▼

10 And the man standing among the myrtle trees answered, and he said: “These are they whom YHWH has sent to walk to and fro on the earth.”

11 And they answered the angel of YHWH standing among the myrtle trees, and they said, “We have walked to and fro on the earth, and behold, all the earth is sitting and being quiet.”

12 And the angel of YHWH answered and said, “O YHWH of Hosts, until when will You have no compassion on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?”

13 And YHWH answered the angel speaking with me good words, words of comfort.

14 And the angel speaking with me said to me, “Call out, saying, thus says YHWH of Hosts: ‘I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with great zeal.

15 And with great wrath I am angry with the nations at ease; for I was a little angry, and they have helped the calamity!”

16 Therefore, thus says YHWH: ‘I have returned to Jerusalem with compassion; My house will be built within her, a declaration of YHWH of Hosts, and a line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.’

17 Again call out, saying, thus says YHWH of Hosts: ‘Again My cities will overflow with goodness; and YHWH again will comfort Zion, and He will choose again Jerusalem.’”

18 And I raised my eyes, and looked, and behold, four horns.

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

20 And YHWH showed me four craftsmen.

21 And I said, “What are these coming to do?” And He answered, saying, “These are the horns that scattered Judah so that not a person could lift up his head; and these are coming to make them tremble, to cast down the horns of the nations who have lifted up the horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”