Zechariah:1

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* In the eighth month , in the second year of Darius , the word of LORD came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah , the son of Iddo , the prophet , saying , * LORD was greatly displeased with your fathers . * Therefore say thou to them , Thus says LORD of hosts : Return to me , says LORD of hosts , and I will return to you , says LORD of hosts . * Be ye not as your fathers , to whom the former prophets cried , saying , Thus says LORD of hosts : Return ye now from your evil ways , and from your evil doings , but they did not hear , nor hearken to me , says LORD . * Your fathers , where are they ? And the prophets , do they live forever ? * But my words and my statutes , which I commanded my servants the prophets , did they not overtake your fathers ? And they turned and said , Like as LORD of hosts thought to do to us , according to our ways , and according to our doings , * Upon the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month , which is the month Shebat , in the second year of Darius , the word of LORD came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah , the son of Iddo , the prophet , saying , * I saw in the 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 there were horses , red , sorrel , and white . * Then I said , O my lord , what are these ? And the [heavenly ] agent who talked with me said to me , I will show thee what these are . * And the man who stood among the myrtle trees answered and said , These are they whom LORD has sent to walk to and fro through the earth . * And they answered the agent of LORD who 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 . * Then the agent of LORD answered and said , O LORD of hosts , how long will thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah , against which thou have had indignation these seventy years ? * And LORD answered the agent who talked with me with good words , comforting words . * So the [heavenly ] agent who talked with me said to me , Cry thou , saying , Thus says LORD of hosts : I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy . * And I am very greatly displeased with the nations that are at ease . For I was but a little displeased , and they helped forward the affliction . * Therefore thus says LORD : I have returned to Jerusalem with mercies . My house shall be built in it , says LORD of hosts , and a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem . * Cry yet again , saying , Thus says LORD of hosts : My cities shall yet overflow with prosperity , and LORD shall yet comfort Zion , and shall yet choose Jerusalem . * And I lifted up my eyes , and saw , and , behold , four horns . * And I said to the [heavenly ] agent who talked with me , What are these ? And he answered me , These are the horns which have scattered Judah , Israel , and Jerusalem . * And LORD showed me four smiths . * Then I said , What are these coming to do ? And he spoke , saying , 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

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