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Zechariah, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of
[1>]the LORD[<1] came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, 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 Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the
word of the LORD came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, 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 earth."
{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
earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and in peace."
{1:12} Then the angel of the LORD replied, "O LORD of Hosts, how
long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah,
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
Jerusalem and for Zion 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 Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in
it," says the LORD of Hosts, "and a line shall be stretched forth over
Jerusalem."'
{1:17} "Proclaim further, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of Hosts: "My
cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again
comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem."'"
{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 Judah,
Israel, and Jerusalem."
{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 Judah, 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 Judah 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 Jerusalem, 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, 'Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without
walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock 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, Zion! Escape,
you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.' {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 Zion; 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 Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again
choose Jerusalem. {2:13} Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD; for he
has roused himself from his holy habitation!"
{3:1} He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel
of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
{3:2} The LORD said to Satan, "The LORD rebuke you, Satan! Yes, the
LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn't this a burning stick
plucked out of the fire?"
{3:3} Now Joshua 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 Joshua, saying, {3:7} "Thus says the LORD of Hosts: 'If
you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, 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, Joshua the high priest, 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 Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave its
engraving,' 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] {1:1} "LORD" or "GOD" (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter
Holy Name of God
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