Zechariah 1

A Call to Return to the Lord

1 In the eighth month, *See Hag. 1:1in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet *Ezra 6:14;Matt. 23:35Zechariah, the son of *1 Chr. 6:39Berechiah, son of *Neh. 12:4,16Iddo, saying, 2 *[Jer. 2:5]"The Lord was very angry with your fathers. 3 Therefore say to them, Thus declares the Lord of hosts: *Isa. 31:6;Jer. 3:1,22;Ezek. 18:30;Mal. 3:7Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and *Jer. 12:15;Mic. 7:19I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. 4 *[Ps. 78:8] Do not be like your fathers, *See 2 Chr. 36:15to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, *[See ver. 3above] Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But *ch. 7:11;2 Chr. 36:16;See Jer. 35:15they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord. 5 Your fathers, where are they? And *[John 8:52]the prophets, do they live forever? 6 *[Isa. 40:8;Matt. 24:35] But my words and my statutes, which I commanded *See Dan. 9:6my servants the prophets, did they not *Deut. 28:2,15overtake your fathers? So they repented and said, *Lam. 2:17‘As the Lord of hosts purposed to deal with us for *[Ezek. 36:31]our ways and *[Ezek. 36:31]deeds, so has he dealt with us.’"

A Vision of a Horseman

7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet *[See ver. 1above] Zechariah, the son of *[See ver. 1above] Berechiah, son of *[See ver. 1above]Iddo, saying, 8 "I saw in the night, and behold, *[Rev. 6:4] a man riding on a red horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in the glen, and behind him were *[Rev. 6:4,5,8]; See ch. 6:2-7red, sorrel, and white horses. 9 Then I said, ‘What are these, my lord?’ *[Rev. 22:6]The angel who talked with me said to me, ‘I will show you what they are.’ 10 So *[See ver. 8above] the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered, *[Heb. 1:14] ‘These are they whom the Lord has sent to *ch. 6:7;[Job 1:7]patrol the earth.’ 11 And they answered *[See ver. 9above] the angel of the Lord who was standing among the myrtle trees, and said, *[See ver. 10above] ‘We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth *[ver. 15]remains at rest.’ 12 Then *[See ver. 9above] the angel of the Lord said, *Ps. 80:4;89:46;Hab. 2:6;Rev. 6:10‘O Lord of hosts, *Ps. 80:4;89:46;Hab. 2:6;Rev. 6:10how long will you *Ps. 102:13have no mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which you have been angry these *ch. 7:5;Jer. 25:11;29:10seventy years?’ 13 And the Lord answered *See Jer. 29:10,11gracious and comforting words to *[See ver. 9above]the angel who talked with me. 14 So *[See ver. 9above] the angel who talked with me said to me, ‘Cry out, Thus says the Lord of hosts: *ch. 8:2;Joel 2:18I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion. 15 *[Joel 3:2] And I am exceedingly angry with the nations that are *[ver. 11] at ease; *[Isa. 54:7,8] for while I was angry but a little, *[Isa. 47:6]they furthered the disaster. 16 Therefore, thus says the Lord, *ch. 8:3I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy; *[ch. 4:9;Ezra 6:14] my house shall be built in it, declares the Lord of hosts, and *Jer. 31:39;Ezek. 40:3;47:3the measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem. 17 Cry out again, Thus says the Lord of hosts: *ch. 2:4My cities shall again overflow with prosperity, *Isa. 40:1;51:3and the Lord will again comfort Zion and again *ch. 2:12choose Jerusalem.’"

A Vision of Horns and Craftsmen

18 * 1:18 Ch 2:1 in Hebrew And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, *[1 Kgs. 22:11]four horns! 19 And I said to *[See ver. 9above] the angel who talked with me, "What are these?" And he said to me, *[See ver. 18above]"These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem." 20 Then the Lord showed me four craftsmen. 21 And I said, "What are these coming to do?" He said, *[See ver. 18above] "These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one raised his head. And these have come *Deut. 28:26;Jer. 7:33to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations *[Ps. 75:4,5]who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it."