¹ In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, ² The LORD has been sorely displeased with your fathers. ³ Therefore say you to them, So says the LORD of hosts; Turn you to me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will turn to you, says the LORD of hosts. ⁴ Be you not as your fathers, to who the former prophets have cried, saying, So says the LORD of hosts; Turn you now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says the LORD. ⁵ Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live forever? ⁶ 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, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so has he dealt with us. ⁷ 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 Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, ⁸ I saw by night, and see a man riding on 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. ⁹ Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said to me, I will show you what these [be]. ¹⁰ And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they who the LORD has sent to walk to and fro through the earth. ¹¹ 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, see, all the earth sits still, and is at rest. ¹² Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD 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? ¹³ And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words. ¹⁴ So the angel that communed with me said to me, Cry you, saying, So says the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy. ¹⁵ And I am very sorely displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction. ¹⁶ Therefore so says the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house will be built in it, says the LORD of hosts, and a line will be stretched forward on Jerusalem. ¹⁷ Cry yet, saying, So says the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity will yet be spread abroad; and the LORD will yet comfort Zion, and will yet choose Jerusalem. ¹⁸ Then lifted I up my eyes, and saw, and see four horns. ¹⁹ And I said to the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem. ²⁰ And the LORD showed me four carpenters. ²¹ Then said I, What come these to do ? And he spoke, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these have come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.