Zekharyah, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} In the eighth month, in the second year of Daryavesh, the word
of the LORD came to Zekharyah the son of Berekhyah, the son of `Iddo,
the prophet, saying, {1:2} "The LORD was very displeased with your
fathers. {1:3} Therefore tell them: Thus says the LORD of Hosts:
'Return to me,' says the LORD of Hosts, 'and I will return to you,'
says the LORD of Hosts. {1:4} Don't you be like your fathers, to whom
the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus says the LORD of hosts,
'Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;' but they
did not hear, nor listen to me, says the LORD. {1:5} Your fathers,
where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? {1:6} But my
words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets,
didn't they overtake your fathers?
"Then they repented and said, 'Just as the LORD of Hosts determined
to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so
he has dealt with us.'" {1:7} On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh
month, which is the month Shevat, in the second year of Daryavesh, the
word of the LORD came to Zekharyah the son of Berekhyah, the son of
`Iddo, the prophet, saying, {1:8} "I had a vision in the night, and,
behold, a man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle
trees that were in a ravine; and behind him there were red, brown, and
white horses. {1:9} Then I asked, 'My lord, what are these?'"
The angel who talked with me said to me, "I will show you what these
are."
{1:10} The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered, "They are
the ones the LORD has sent to go back and forth through the
[1>]eretz[<1]."
{1:11} They reported to the angel of the LORD who stood among the
myrtle trees, and said, "We have walked back and forth through the
[2>]eretz[<2], and, behold, all the [3>]eretz[<3] is at rest and in
shalom."
{1:12} Then the angel of the LORD replied, "O LORD of Hosts, how
long will you not have mercy on Yerushalayim and on the cities of
Yehudah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?"
{1:13} The LORD answered the angel who talked with me with kind and
comforting words. {1:14} So the angel who talked with me said to me,
"Proclaim, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of Hosts: "I am jealous for
Yerushalayim and for Tziyon with a great jealousy. {1:15} I am very
angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little
displeased, but they added to the calamity." {1:16} Therefore thus
says the LORD: "I have returned to Yerushalayim with mercy. My house
shall be built in it," says the LORD of Hosts, "and a line shall be
stretched forth over Yerushalayim."'
{1:17} "Proclaim further, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of Hosts: "My
cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again
comfort Tziyon, and will again choose Yerushalayim."'"
{1:18} I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, four horns. {1:19}
I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these?"
He answered me, "These are the horns which have scattered Yehudah,
Yisra'el, and Yerushalayim."
{1:20} The LORD showed me four craftsmen. {1:21} Then I asked, "What
are these coming to do?"
He said, "These are the horns which scattered Yehudah, so that no
man lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast
down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the
land of Yehudah to scatter it."
{2:1} I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, a man with a
measuring line in his hand. {2:2} Then I asked, "Where are you going?"
He said to me, "To measure Yerushalayim, to see what is its breadth
and what is its length."
{2:3} Behold, the angel who talked with me went forth, and another
angel went out to meet him, {2:4} and said to him, "Run, speak to this
young man, saying, 'Yerushalayim will be inhabited as villages without
walls, because of the multitude of men and cattle in it. {2:5} For I,'
says the LORD, 'will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be
the glory in the midst of her. {2:6} Come! Come! Flee from the land of
the north,' says the LORD; 'for I have spread you abroad as the four
winds of the sky,' says the LORD. {2:7} 'Come, Tziyon! Escape, you who
dwell with the daughter of Bavel.' {2:8} For thus says the LORD of
hosts: 'For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you;
for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye. {2:9} For,
behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a spoil to
those who served them; and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has
sent me. {2:10} Sing and rejoice, daughter of Tziyon; for, behold, I
come, and I will dwell in the midst of you,' says the LORD. {2:11}
Many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall
be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know
that the LORD of Hosts has sent me to you. {2:12} The LORD will
inherit Yehudah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose
Yerushalayim. {2:13} Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD; for he has
roused himself from his holy habitation!"
{3:1} He showed me Yehoshua the [1>]Kohen Gadol[<1] standing before
the angel of the LORD, and Hasatan standing at his right hand to be
his adversary. {3:2} The LORD said to Hasatan, "The LORD rebuke you,
Hasatan! Yes, the LORD who has chosen Yerushalayim rebuke you! Isn't
this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?"
{3:3} Now Yehoshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was
standing before the angel. {3:4} He answered and spoke to those who
stood before him, saying, "Take the filthy garments off of him." To
him he said, "Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you,
and I will clothe you with rich clothing."
{3:5} I said, "Let them set a clean turban on his head."
So they set a clean turban on his head, and clothed him; and the
angel of the LORD was standing by. {3:6} The angel of the LORD
protested to Yehoshua, saying, {3:7} "Thus says the LORD of hosts: 'If
you will walk in my ways, and if you will keep my charge, then you
also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will
give you a place of access among these who stand by. {3:8} Hear now,
Yehoshua the [2>]Kohen Gadol[<2], you and your fellows who sit before
you; for they are men who are a sign: for, behold, I will bring forth
my servant, the Branch. {3:9} For, behold, the stone that I have set
before Yehoshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave
the engraving of it,' says the LORD of Hosts, 'and I will remove the
iniquity of that land in one day. {3:10} In that day,' says the LORD
of hosts, 'you will invite every man his neighbor under the vine and
under the fig tree.'"
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Footnotes:
[1] {1:10} earth
[2] {1:11} earth
[3] {1:11} earth
[1] {3:1} high priest
[2] {3:8} high priest
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