In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
The \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** hath been sore displeased with your fathers.
Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** of hosts.
Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from* your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**.
Your fathers, where are* they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
But 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 the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
¶ Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is* the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
I 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.
Then said I, O my lord, what are* these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be*.
And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they* whom the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.
And they answered the angel of the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.
¶ Then the angel of the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** answered and said, O \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?
And the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** answered the angel that talked with me with* good words and* comfortable words.
So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
And 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.
Therefore thus saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
¶ Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be* these? And he answered me, These are* the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.
And the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** shewed me four carpenters.
Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are* the horns which have scattered 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 Judah to scatter it.