Zechariah:1
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In the eighth month ,
in the second year of Darius ,
came the word of the LORD to Zechariah ,
the son of Barachiah ,
the son of Iddo the prophet ,
saying ,
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The LORD hath been greatly displeased with your fathers .
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Therefore say thou to them ,
Thus saith the LORD of hosts ;
Turn ye to me ,
saith the LORD of hosts ,
and I will turn to you ,
saith the LORD of hosts .
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Be ye not as your fathers ,
to whom the former prophets have cried ,
saying ,
Thus saith the LORD of hosts ;
Turn ye now from your evil ways ,
and from your evil doings :
but they did not hear ,
nor hearken to me ,
saith the LORD .
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Your fathers ,
where are they ?
and the prophets ,
do they live for ever ?
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But my words and my statutes ,
which I commanded my servants the prophets ,
did they not take hold of your fathers ?
and they returned and said ,
As the LORD of hosts thought to do to us ,
according to our ways ,
and according to our doings ,
so hath he dealt with us .
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Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month ,
which is the month Sebat ,
in the second year of Darius ,
came the word of the LORD to Zechariah ,
the son of Barachiah ,
the son of Iddo the prophet ,
saying ,
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I saw by 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 were there red horses ,
speckled ,
and white .
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Then said I ,
O my lord ,
what are these ?
And the angel that talked with me said to me ,
I will show thee what these are .
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And the man that stood among the myrtle-trees answered and said ,
These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth .
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And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle-trees ,
and said ,
We have walked to and fro through the earth ,
and behold ,
all the earth sitteth still ,
and is at rest .
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Then the angel of the LORD answered and said ,
O LORD of hosts ,
how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah ,
against which thou hast had indignation these seventy years .
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And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comforting words .
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So the angel that communed with me said to me ,
Cry thou ,
saying ,
Thus saith the LORD of hosts ;
I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy .
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And I am very greatly displeased with the heathen that are at ease :
for I was but a little displeased ,
and they helped forward the affliction .
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Therefore thus saith the LORD ;
I have returned to Jerusalem with mercies :
my house shall be built in it ,
saith the LORD of hosts ,
and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem .
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Cry yet ,
saying ,
Thus saith the LORD of hosts ;
My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad ;
and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion ,
and shall yet choose Jerusalem .
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Then I lifted up my eyes ,
and saw ,
and behold four horns .
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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 .
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And the LORD showed me four carpenters .
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Then said I ,
What come these to do ?
And he spoke ,
saying ,
These are the horns which have scattered Judah ,
so that no man lifted up his head :
but these are come to terrify them ,
to cast down the horns of the Gentiles ,
which lifted their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it .