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          DASV: Zechariah 1

1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word
of the LORD came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son
of Iddo, the prophet, saying,
2 "The LORD was very angry with your forefathers.
3 Therefore say to them, 'This is what the LORD says: Return to me,
says the LORD of hosts, and I will return to you,' says the
LORD of hosts.
4 Do not be like your forefathers, to whom the former prophets
cried out, saying, 'This is what the LORD of hosts says, Turn
now from your evil ways, and from your evil deeds. But they
did not listen, or obey me,' says the LORD.
5 Your forefathers, where are they? And the prophets, did they
live forever?
6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the
prophets, did they not overtake your forefathers? So they repented
and said, 'The LORD of hosts has done to us according to what
we have done, just as he planned to do to us.'"

7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the
month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD
came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the
prophet, saying,
8 "In the night I looked and there was a man riding on a red horse
that stood among the myrtle trees that were in the ravine. Behind
him there were red, brown, and white horses.
9 Then I asked, 'My lord, what are these?' The angel who talked
with me replied, 'I will show you what these are.'
10 The man standing among the myrtle trees answered, 'These are
those whom the LORD has sent to patrol the earth.'
11 Then they answered the angel of the LORD who was standing among
the myrtle trees, 'We have patrolled the earth, and the entire
earth is peaceful and quiet.'
12 Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, 'O LORD of hosts,
how long will you not have compassion on Jerusalem and on the citiesr> of Judah, against whom you have been angry for these seventy years?' 13 The LORD answered the angel who talked with me with good and
comforting words.
14 So the angel who talked with me told me, 'Cry out, this is what
the LORD of hosts says: I am very jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion.
15 I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I
was just a little angry, they have only made things worse.'
16 Therefore this is what the LORD says: 'I have returned to
Jerusalem with compassion; my house will be built in it, says
the LORD of hosts, and a line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.'
17 Cry out again, 'This is what the LORD of hosts says: My cities
will yet overflow with prosperity; and the LORD will yet comfort
Zion and choose Jerusalem.'"

18 Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw four horns.
19 I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these?" He
replied, "These are the horns that have scattered Judah,
Israel, and Jerusalem."
20 Then the LORD showed me four blacksmiths.
21 Then I asked, "What are these coming to do?" He replied,
"These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one could
even lift up his head; but these blacksmiths have come to
terrify them and to throw down the horns of the nations which
lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter
its people."
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