Zechariah:1

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* In the eighth month , in the second year of Darius , the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah , the son of Iddo , the prophet , saying , * Yahweh was very displeased with your (note :){+}(:note ) fathers . * Therefore you say to them , Thus says Yahweh of hosts : Return to me , says Yahweh of hosts , and I will return to you (note :){+}(:note ), says Yahweh of hosts . * Don 't be (note :){+}(:note ) as your {+} fathers , to whom the former prophets cried , saying , Thus says Yahweh of hosts , Return {+} now from your {+} evil ways , and from your {+} evil doings : but they did not hear , nor listen to me , says Yahweh . * Your (note :){+}(:note ) fathers , where are they ? And the prophets , do they live forever ? * But my words and my statutes , which I commanded my slaves the prophets , did they not overtake your (note :){+}(:note ) fathers ? And they turned and said , Like Yahweh of hosts thought to do to us , according to our ways , and according to our doings , so has he dealt with us . * On the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month , which is the month Shebat , in the second year of Darius , the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah , the son of Iddo , the prophet , saying , * I saw in the night , and , look , a man riding on 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 angel that talked with me said to me , I will show you what these are . * And the man who stood among the myrtle-trees answered and said , These are those whom Yahweh has sent to walk to and fro through the earth . * And they answered the angel of Yahweh who stood among the myrtle-trees , and said , We have walked to and fro through the earth , and , look , all the earth sits still , and is at rest . * Then the angel of Yahweh answered and said , O Yahweh 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 ? * And Yahweh answered the angel that talked with me with good words , [even ] comfortable words . * So the angel that talked with me said to me , Cry out , saying , Thus says Yahweh of hosts : I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy . * And I am very intensely displeased with the nations that are at ease ; for I was but a little displeased , and they helped forward the affliction . * Therefore thus says Yahweh : I have returned to Jerusalem with mercies ; my house will be built in it , says Yahweh of hosts , and a line will be stretched forth over Jerusalem . * Cry out yet again , saying , Thus says Yahweh of hosts : My cities will yet overflow with prosperity ; and Yahweh will yet comfort Zion , and will yet choose Jerusalem . * And I lifted up my eyes , and looked , and saw four horns . * And I said to the angel that talked with me , What are these ? And he answered me , These are the horns which have scattered Judah , Israel , and Jerusalem . * And Yahweh showed me four blacksmiths . * Then I said , What do these come 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 up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it .

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