Dual Panel1In the eighth <08066> month <02320>_, in the second <08147> year <08141> of Darius <01867>_, came the word <01697> of the LORD <03068> unto Zechariah <02148>_, the son <01121> of Berechiah <01296>_, the son <01121> of Iddo <05714> the prophet <05030>_, saying <0559> (8800)_,
2The LORD <03068> hath been sore <07110> displeased <07107> (8804) with your fathers <01>_. {sore...: Heb. with displeasure}
3Therefore say <0559> (8804) thou unto them, Thus saith <0559> (8804) the LORD <03068> of hosts <06635>_; Turn <07725> (8798) ye unto me, saith <05002> (8803) the LORD <03068> of hosts <06635>_, and I will turn <07725> (8799) unto you, saith <0559> (8804) the LORD <03068> of hosts <06635>_.
4Be ye not as your fathers <01>_, unto whom the former <07223> prophets <05030> have cried <07121> (8804)_, saying <0559> (8800)_, Thus saith <0559> (8804) the LORD <03068> of hosts <06635>_; Turn <07725> (8798) ye now from your evil <07451> ways <01870>_, and [from] your evil <07451> doings <04611>_: but they did not hear <08085> (8804)_, nor hearken <07181> (8689) unto me, saith <05002> (8803) the LORD <03068>_.
5Your fathers <01>_, where [are] they? and the prophets <05030>_, do they live <02421> (8799) for ever <05769>_?
6But my words <01697> and my statutes <02706>_, which I commanded <06680> (8765) my servants <05650> the prophets <05030>_, did they not take hold <05381> (8689) of your fathers <01>_? and they returned <07725> (8799) and said <0559> (8799)_, Like as the LORD <03068> of hosts <06635> thought <02161> (8804) to do <06213> (8800) unto us, according to our ways <01870>_, and according to our doings <04611>_, so hath he dealt <06213> (8804) with us. {take...: or, overtake}
7Upon the four <0702> and twentieth <06242> day <03117> of the eleventh <06249> <06240> month <02320>_, which [is] the month <02320> Sebat <07627>_, in the second <08147> year <08141> of Darius <01867>_, came the word <01697> of the LORD <03068> unto Zechariah <02148>_, the son <01121> of Berechiah <01296>_, the son <01121> of Iddo <05714> the prophet <05030>_, saying <0559> (8800)_,
8I saw <07200> (8804) by night <03915>_, and behold a man <0376> riding <07392> (8802) upon a red <0122> horse <05483>_, and he stood <05975> (8802) among the myrtle trees <01918> that [were] in the bottom <04699>_; and behind <0310> him [were there] red <0122> horses <05483>_, speckled <08320>_, and white <03836>_. {speckled: or, bay}
9Then said <0559> (8799) I, O my lord <0113>_, what [are] these? And the angel <04397> that talked <01696> (8802) with me said <0559> (8799) unto me, I will shew <07200> (8686) thee what these [be].
10And the man <0376> that stood <05975> (8802) among the myrtle trees <01918> answered <06030> (8799) and said <0559> (8799)_, These [are they] whom the LORD <03068> hath sent <07971> (8804) to walk <01980> (8692) to and fro through the earth <0776>_.
11And they answered <06030> (8799) the angel <04397> of the LORD <03068> that stood <05975> (8802) among the myrtle trees <01918>_, and said <0559> (8799)_, We have walked to and fro <01980> (8694) through the earth <0776>_, and, behold, all the earth <0776> sitteth still <03427> (8802)_, and is at rest <08252> (8802)_.
12Then the angel <04397> of the LORD <03068> answered <06030> (8799) and said <0559> (8799)_, O LORD <03068> of hosts <06635>_, how long wilt thou not have mercy <07355> (8762) on Jerusalem <03389> and on the cities <05892> of Judah <03063>_, against which thou hast had indignation <02194> (8804) these threescore and ten <07657> years <08141>_?
13And the LORD <03068> answered <06030> (8799) the angel <04397> that talked <01696> (8802) with me [with] good <02896> words <01697> [and] comfortable <05150> words <01697>_.
14So the angel <04397> that communed <01696> (8802) with me said <0559> (8799) unto me, Cry <07121> (8798) thou, saying <0559> (8800)_, Thus saith <0559> (8804) the LORD <03068> of hosts <06635>_; I am jealous <07065> (8765) for Jerusalem <03389> and for Zion <06726> with a great <01419> jealousy <07068>_.
15And I am very <01419> sore <07110> displeased <07107> (8804) with the heathen <01471> [that are] at ease <07600>_: for I was but a little <04592> displeased <07107> (8802)_, and they helped <05826> (8804) forward the affliction <07451>_.
16Therefore thus saith <0559> (8804) the LORD <03068>_; I am returned <07725> (8804) to Jerusalem <03389> with mercies <07356>_: my house <01004> shall be built <01129> (8735) in it, saith <05002> (8803) the LORD <03068> of hosts <06635>_, and a line <06957> (8675) <06961> shall be stretched forth <05186> (8735) upon Jerusalem <03389>_.
17Cry <07121> (8798) yet, saying <0559> (8800)_, Thus saith <0559> (8804) the LORD <03068> of hosts <06635>_; My cities <05892> through prosperity <02896> shall yet be spread abroad <06327> (8799)_; and the LORD <03068> shall yet comfort <05162> (8765) Zion <06726>_, and shall yet choose <0977> (8804) Jerusalem <03389>_. {prosperity: Heb. good}
18Then lifted I up <05375> (8799) mine eyes <05869>_, and saw <07200> (8799)_, and behold four <0702> horns <07161>_.
19And I said <0559> (8799) unto the angel <04397> that talked <01696> (8802) with me, What [be] these? And he answered <0559> (8799) me, These [are] the horns <07161> which have scattered <02219> (8765) Judah <03063>_, Israel <03478>_, and Jerusalem <03389>_.
20And the LORD <03068> shewed <07200> (8686) me four <0702> carpenters <02796>_.
21Then said <0559> (8799) I, What come <0935> (8802) these to do <06213> (8800)_? And he spake <0559> (8799)_, saying <0559> (8800)_, These [are] the horns <07161> which have scattered <02219> (8765) Judah <03063>_, so that <06310> no man <0376> did lift up <05375> (8804) his head <07218>_: but these are come <0935> (8799) to fray <02729> (8687) them, to cast out <03034> (8763) the horns <07161> of the Gentiles <01471>_, which lifted up <05375> (8802) [their] horn <07161> over the land <0776> of Judah <03063> to scatter <02219> (8763) it.