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\v 1 In the eighth month of the second year of Darius' reign, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son
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of Iddo the prophet, saying,
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\v 2 "Yahweh was exceedingly angry with your fathers!
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\v 3 Say to them, 'Yahweh of hosts says this:
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\q "Turn to me!"—this is Yahweh of hosts' declaration—
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\q "and I will return to you!" says Yahweh of hosts.
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\v 4 Do not be like your fathers to whom the prophets cried out previously, saying, "Yahweh of hosts says this:
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turn from your evil ways and wicked practices!" But they would not hear and did not pay attention to me.'" This is Yahweh's declaration.
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\v 5 "Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, are they here forever?
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\v 6 But my words and my decrees that I commanded my servants the prophets,
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\q have they not overtaken your fathers?
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So they repented and said, 'Yahweh of hosts's plans are made in keeping with his word and practice, and he has carried them out.'"
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\v 7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius' reign, the word of Yahweh came
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to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
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\v 8 "I saw in the night, and, look! a man was riding on a red horse, and he was among the myrtle trees that are in the
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valley; and behind him there were red, reddish-brown, and white horses."
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\v 9 I said, "What are these things, Lord?" And the angel that talked with me said to me, "I will show you what these things are."
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\v 10 Then the man who stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, "These are those Yahweh has sent out to roam throughout the earth."
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\v 11 They answered the angel of Yahweh who stood among the myrtle trees; they said to him, "We have been roaming throughout the earth; see, all the earth sits still and is at rest."
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\v 12 Then the angel of Yahweh answered and said, "Yahweh of hosts, how long will you show no compassion to Jerusalem and to
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the cities of Judah that have suffered indignation these seventy years?"
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\v 13 Yahweh answered the angel who had talked with me with good words, words of comfort.
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\v 14 So the angel who had talked with me said to me, "Call out and say, 'Yahweh of hosts says this:
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\q "I have been jealous for Jerusalem
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and for Zion with a great passion!
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\v 15 And I am very greatly angry with the nations that are at ease;
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\q for I was but a little displeased, and they helped
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forward the affliction."
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\v 16 Therefore Yahweh of hosts says this:
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\q "I have returned to Jerusalem with mercies. My house will be built within her"'
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\q —this is Yahweh of hosts' declaration—"and
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the measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem!"
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\v 17 Again call out, saying,
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\q 'Yahweh of hosts says this: 'My cities will once again overflow with goodness,
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\q and Yahweh will again
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comfort Zion, and he will once again choose Jerusalem."
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\v 18 Then I lifted up my eyes and saw four horns!
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\v 19 I spoke to the angel that talked with me, "What are these?" He answered me, "These are the horns that have
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scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem."
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\v 20 Then Yahweh showed me four blacksmiths.
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\v 21 I said, "What are these people coming to do?" He answered, and said, "These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no man would
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lift up his head. But these people are coming to drive them out, to cast down the horns of the nations who lifted up any horn against
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the land of Judah to scatter her."
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