Zechariah 1:10-21 ▼

10 Then the man who was standing among the myrtle trees spoke up and said, “These are the ones whom the LORD has sent to patrol the earth.”

11 And they answered the angel of the LORD, who was standing among the myrtle trees: “We have been patrolling the earth, and now the whole earth rests quietly.”

12 Then the angel of the LORD replied, “LORD of hosts, how long will you be without mercy for Jerusalem and the cities of Judah that have felt your anger these seventy years?”

13 To the angel who spoke with me, the LORD replied favorably, with comforting words.

14 The angel who spoke with me then said to me, Proclaim: Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion intensely jealous.

15 I am consumed with anger toward the complacent nations; When I was only a little angry, they compounded the disaster.

16 Therefore, thus says the LORD: I return to Jerusalem in mercy; my house will be rebuilt there —oracle of the LORD of hosts— and a measuring line will be stretched over Jerusalem.

17 Proclaim further: Thus says the LORD of hosts: My cities will again overflow with prosperity; the LORD will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem.

18 I raised my eyes and looked and there were four horns.

19 Then I asked the angel who spoke with me, “What are those?” He answered, “Those are the horns that scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”

20 Then the LORD showed me four workmen.

21 And I said, “What are these coming to do?” And the LORD said, “Those are the horns that scattered Judah, so that none could raise their heads any more; and these have come to terrify them—to cut down the horns of the nations that raised their horns to scatter the land of Judah.”