Zechariah Chapter 1

• Zechariah 1:1
  In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the LORD’s word came to the prophet Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying,
• Zechariah 1:2
  “The LORD was very displeased with your fathers.
• Zechariah 1:3
  Therefore tell them, the LORD of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says the LORD of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says the LORD of Armies.
• Zechariah 1:4
  Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: The LORD of Armies says, ‘Return now from your evil ways and from your...
• Zechariah 1:5
  Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
• Zechariah 1:6
  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 the...
• Zechariah 1:7
  On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the LORD’s word came to the prophet Zechariah...
• Zechariah 1:8
  “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...
• Zechariah 1:9
  Then I asked, ‘My lord, what are these?’” The angel who talked with me said to me, “I will show you what these are.”
• Zechariah 1:10
  The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered, “They are the ones the LORD has sent to go back and forth through the earth.”
• Zechariah 1:11
  They reported to the LORD’s angel who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, “We have walked back and forth through the earth, and behold, all the ea...
• Zechariah 1:12
  Then the LORD’s angel replied, “O LORD of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had...
• Zechariah 1:13
  The LORD answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.
• Zechariah 1:14
  So the angel who talked with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘The LORD of Armies says: “I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealous...
• Zechariah 1:15
  I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”
• Zechariah 1:16
  Therefore the LORD says: “I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it,” says the LORD of Armies, “and a line shall be stret...
• Zechariah 1:17
  “Proclaim further, saying, ‘The LORD of Armies says: “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion, and will ag...
• Zechariah 1:18
  I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, four horns.
• Zechariah 1:19
  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.”
• Zechariah 1:20
  The LORD showed me four craftsmen.
• Zechariah 1:21
  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 co...