1In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of Yahuah (LORD) unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
2Yahuah (LORD) has been sore displeased with your fathers.
3Therefore say you unto them, Thus says Yahuah Tseva'ot (LORD of hosts); Turn you unto me, says Yahuah Tseva'ot (LORD of hosts), and I will turn unto you, says Yahuah Tseva'ot (LORD of hosts).
4Be you not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus says Yahuah Tseva'ot (LORD of hosts); Turn you now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, says Yahuah (LORD).
5Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
6But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as Yahuah Tseva'ot (LORD of hosts) thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so has he dealt with us.
7Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of Yahuah (LORD) unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
8I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.
9Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew you what these be.
10And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom Yahuah (LORD) has sent to walk to and fro through the earth.
11And they answered the angel of Yahuah (LORD) that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sits still, and is at rest.
12Then the angel of Yahuah (LORD) answered and said, O Yahuah Tseva'ot (LORD of hosts), how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Yahudah (Judah), against which you have had indignation these threescore and ten years?
13And Yahuah (LORD) answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.
14So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry you, saying, Thus says Yahuah Tseva'ot (LORD of hosts); I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
15And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.
16Therefore thus says Yahuah (LORD); I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, says Yahuah Tseva'ot (LORD of hosts), and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
17Cry yet, saying, Thus says Yahuah Tseva'ot (LORD of hosts); My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and Yahuah (LORD) shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
18Then lifted I up my eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
19And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Yahudah (Judah), Yashar'el (Israel), and Jerusalem.
20And Yahuah (LORD) shewed me four carpenters.
21Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Yahudah (Judah), so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Yahudah (Judah) to scatter it.