Zechariah:1

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* In the eighth month , in the second year of Darius , the word of Yahweh {"Yahweh " is God 's proper Name , sometimes rendered "LORD " (all caps ) in other translations .} came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah , the son of Iddo , the prophet , saying , * "Yahweh was very displeased with your fathers . * Therefore tell them : Thus says Yahweh of Armies : 'Return to me ,' says Yahweh of Armies , 'and I will return to you ,' says Yahweh of Armies . * Don 't you be like your fathers , to whom the former prophets proclaimed , saying : Thus says Yahweh of Armies , 'Return now from your evil ways , and from your evil doings ;' but they did not hear , nor listen to me , says Yahweh . * Your fathers , where are they ? And the prophets , do they live forever ? * 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 Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us , according to our ways , and according to our practices , so he has dealt with us .'" * On the twenty-fourth 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 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 . * Then I asked , 'My lord , what are these ?'" The angel who talked with me said to me , "I will show you what these are ." * The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered , "They are the ones Yahweh has sent to go back and forth through the earth ." * They reported to the angel of Yahweh 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 ." * Then the angel of Yahweh replied , "O Yahweh of Armies , how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah , against which you have had indignation these seventy years ?" * Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words . * So the angel who talked with me said to me , "Proclaim , saying , 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies : "I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy . * I am very angry with the nations that are at ease ; for I was but a little displeased , but they added to the calamity ." * Therefore thus says Yahweh : "I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy . My house shall be built in it ," says Yahweh of Armies , "and a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem ."' * "Proclaim further , saying , 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies : "My cities will again overflow with prosperity , and Yahweh will again comfort Zion , and will again choose Jerusalem ."'" * I lifted up my eyes , and saw , and behold , four horns . * 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 ." * Yahweh showed me four craftsmen . * 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 ."

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