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evil ways, and
from
your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the L
ORD
.
5
Your fathers, where
are
they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
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 L
ORD
of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and
according to our doings, so hath 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 L
ORD
unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo
the prophet, saying,
8
I saw by 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
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 unto me, I will
shew thee what these
be.
10
And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said,
These
are they
whom the L
ORD
hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.
11
And they answered
the angel of the L
ORD
that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro
through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.
12
Then the angel of the L
ORD
answered and said, O L
ORD
of hosts, how long wilt thou not have
mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these
threescore and ten years?
13
And the L
ORD
answered the angel that talked with me
with
good words
and
comfortable words.
14
So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying,
Thus saith the L
ORD
of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
15
And
I am very sore displeased with the heathen
that are
at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and
they helped forward the affliction.
16
Therefore thus saith the L
ORD
; I am returned to Jerusalem
with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the L
ORD
of hosts, and a line shall be stretched
forth upon Jerusalem.
17
Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the L
ORD
of hosts; My cities through prosperity
shall yet be spread abroad; and the L
ORD
shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
18
Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
19
And I said unto 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 L
ORD
shewed me four carpenters.
21
Then said I, What
come these to do? And he spake, saying, These
are
the horns which have scattered Judah, so that
no man did lift up his head: but these are 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.
CHAPTER 2
I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
2
Then
said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what
is
the breadth
thereof, and what
is
the length thereof.
3
And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and
another angel went out to meet him,
4
And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying,
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