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Zechariah
1:1 In the eighth month, in the second year of
Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
A Call
to Return to the Lord
1:2 The LORD hath been sore displeased with your
fathers.
1:3 Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of
hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will
turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.
1:4 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former
prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts;
Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings:
but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.
1:5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they
live for ever?
1:6 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 unto us, according to our ways, and
according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
The Man Among the Myrtle
Trees
1:7 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 unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah,
the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
1:8 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.
1:9 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.
1:10 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered
and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to
and fro through the earth.
1:11 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, behold, all the earth sitteth still,
and is at rest.
1:12 Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD
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?
1:13 And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me
with good words and comfortable words.
1:14 So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry
thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for
Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
1:15 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.
1:16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to
Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith
the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon
Jerusalem.
1:17 Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My
cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and
the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose
Jerusalem.
Four Horns and Four
Craftsmen
1:18 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four
horns.
1:19 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.
1:20 And the LORD shewed me four carpenters.
1:21 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. |
Cults 
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