Zech 1
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In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of YHWH to Zechariah
the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,
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YHWH was sore displeased with your fathers.
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Therefore say you to them, Thus says YHWH of hosts: Return to me, says YHWH of hosts,
and I will return to you, says YHWH of hosts.
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Be you not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus says YHWH
of hosts, Return you now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they
did not hear, nor hearken to me, says YHWH.
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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 overtake your fathers? and they turned and said, Like as YHWH of hosts thought
to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so has he dealt with
us.
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Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat,
in the second year of Darius, came the word of YHWH to Zechariah the son of Berechiah,
the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,
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I saw in the 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 there were horses, red, sorrel,
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 you what these are.
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And the man that stood among the myrtle-trees answered and said, These are they whom
YHWH has sent to walk to and fro through the earth.
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And they answered the angel of YHWH that stood among the myrtle-trees, and said, We
have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sits still, and
is at rest.
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Then the angel of YHWH answered and said, O YHWH of hosts, how long will you not have
mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation
these threescore and ten years?
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And YHWH answered the angel that talked with me with good words, [even] comfortable
words.
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So the angel that talked with me said to me, Cry you, saying, Thus says YHWH of hosts:
I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
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And I am very sore displeased with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little
displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.
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Therefore thus says YHWH: I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies; my house shall
be built in it, says YHWH of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem.
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Cry yet again, saying, Thus says YHWH of hosts: My cities shall yet overflow with
prosperity; and YHWH shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
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And I lifted up mine 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 YHWH showed me four smiths.
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Then said I, What come these to do? And he spoke, saying, These are the horns which
scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head; but these are 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.