Zechariah 1:16-21 ▼

16 Therefore thus says the LORD, |I will return to Jerusalem with compassion; My house will be built in it,| declares the LORD of hosts, |and a measuring line will be stretched over Jerusalem.|'

17 |Again, proclaim, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, |My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.|'|

18 Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, [there were] four horns.

19 So I said to the angel who was speaking with me, |What are these?| And he answered me, |These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem.|

20 Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.

21 I said, |What are these coming to do?| And he said, |These are the horns which have scattered Judah so that no man lifts up his head; but these [craftsmen] have come to terrify them, to throw down the horns of the nations who have lifted up [their] horns against the land of Judah in order to scatter it.|