In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo;
"The LORD was very angry with your forefathers,
Therefore tell the people: This is what the LORD Almighty says; "Return to me, declares the LORD Almighty says: "Return to me, declares the LORD Almighty.
Do not be like your forefathers, to whom thee arlier prophets proc;aimed: This is what the LORD Almighty says."This is what the LORD Almighty says, "Turn from your evil ways and your evil practices. But they would not listen or pay attention to me, declares the LORD.
Where are your forefathers now? And the prophets, do they live forever?
But did not my words and my decrees which I commanded my servants the prophets, overtake your farefathers? "Then they repented ands aid,"The LORD Almighty has done to us what our ways and practices deserve , just as he determind to do,:
On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to teh prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo.
During the night I had a vision- and there before me was a man riding a red horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in a ravine, Behind him were red. brown and white horses,
I asked," What are these my lord?" The angel who was talking with me answered,"I wil show you what they are,"
Then the mans tanding among the myrtle trees explained, "They are the ones the LORD has sent to go throughout thee arth."
And they reported to the angel of the LORD, who was standing among teh myrtle trees, "We have gone throughout the earth and found teh whol;e world at rest and in peace."
Then the angel of the LORD said, ,"LORD Almighty, how long will you withhold mercy from Jerusalem and from the towns of Judah, which you have been angry with these seventy years?"
So the LORD spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who talked with me.
Then the angel who was speaking to me said. "Proclaim this word; This is what the lLORD Almighty says, "I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion,
but I am very angry with the nations that feel secure, I was only a little angry, but they added to the calamily,
"Therefore, this is what the LORD says, I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there my house will be rebjuilt, And the measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem. declares the LORD Almighty.
"Proclaim further, This is what the LORD Almighty says: My towmns will again overflow with prosperit, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem,"
'mANYThen I looked up- and there before me were four horns!
I asked the angel who was speaking to me, "What are these?" He answered me," These are the horns that scattered NJudah, Israel and Jerusalem."
Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.
I asked," What are these coming to do? He answered," These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could raise his tered Judah so that no one could raise his head, but the craftsmen have come to terrify them and tjrow down these horns against the land of Judah tos catter its people.
Zechariah 2
Then I looked up- and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand!
I asked," Where are you going?" He answered me," To measure Jerusalem to find out how wide and how long it is"
Then the angel who was speaking to me left, and another angel came to meet him.
and said to him;"Run, tell that young man Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of thje great number of men and livestock on it.
And I myself will be a wall of fire around it, decclares the LORD , and I will be its glory with
"Come! Come! Hee from the land of the north," declares the LORD,"for I hace scattered you to teh four winds of heaven," declares the LORD.
"Come, O Zion! Escape, you who live in the Daughter of Babylon!"
For this is what the LORD Almighty says: "After he has honored me and has sent me against the nations that have plundered you- for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye
I will surely raise my hand against them so that their slaves will plunder them, Then you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me.
"Shout and be glad, O Daughter of Zion, For I am coming and I will live among you," declares the LORD.
"Many nations will be joined with the LORD in that day and will become my people I will live among you and you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me to you.
The LORD will inherit Judah as his portionm in the holy land and will again choose Jerusalem
Be still before the LORD, all mankind, because he has roused himself from his holy dwelling."
Zechariah 3
Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right side to accuse him
The LORD said to Satan," The LORD rebuke you, Satan! The LORD , who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this man a burning stick snatched from the fire?"
Now Joshua was drewwed in filthy clothes as hes tood before the angel
The angel said to those who were standing before him, "Take off his fifthy clothes," Then he said to Joshua,"See, I have taken away your sin, and I will put rich garments on you."
Then I said,"Put a clean turban on his head," So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him. while the angel of the LORD stood by.
The angel of the LORD gave this charge to Joshua.
"This is waht the LORD Almighty says , If you will walk in my ways and keep my requirements , then you will govern my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you a place among these standing here.
"Lisen, O high priest Joshua and your associates seated before you, who are men symbolic of things to come; I am going to bring my servant the Branch,
See , the stone I have set in front of Joshua! There are seven eyes on that one stone, and I will engrave an inscription on it, says the LORD Almighty, and I will remove the sin of this land in a single day.
"In that day each of you will invite his neighbors to sit under his vine and fig three declares the LORD Almighty."
Zecharia 4
Then the angel who talked with me retyrbed abd wakened me, as a man is wakened from his sleep.
He asked me, "What do you see?" I answered, I see a solid gold lampastand with a bowl at the top and seven lights on it. with seven channels to the lights.
Also there are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left."
I asked the angel who talked with me,"What are these, my lord?"
He answered,"Do you not know what these are?" "No, my lord," I replied.
So he said to me,"This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel; Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD Almighty,
What are you, O mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will because level ground ,Then he will bring out the capstone to shouts of God bless it!God bless it!"
Then the word of the LORD came to me.
"The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this temple; his hands will also complete it, Then you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me to you.
"Who dispises the day of small things? Men will rejoice when they see the plumb lin in the hand of Zerubbabel.(:These seven are the eyes of the LORD.which range through the earth,)"
Then I asked the angel," What are these two olive trees in the right and the left of the lampstand
Again I asked him, "What are these two olive trees beside the two gold pipes that pour out golden oil?"
He replied," Do you not know what these are?""No, my lord, I said.
So he said," These are the two who are anointed to" serve the LORD of all the earth,"
Zechariah 5
I looked again- and there before me was a flyinf scroll!
He asked me," What do you see?" I answerd, "I see a flying scroll, thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide."
And he said to me, " This is curse that is going out over the whole land for according to what it says on one side. every thief will banished , and according to what it says on the other, everyone who wears falsely will be banished.
The LORD Almighty declares," I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who sweaaras falsely by my name, It will remain in his house and destroy it, both its timbers and its stones,"
Then the angel who was speaking to me came forward and said to me,"Look up and see waht this is that is appering
I asked "What is it?" He replied,"It is a measurimg nasket," And he added, " This is the iniquity of the people throughjout the land,"
The the cover of lead was raised, and there in the basket sat a woman!
He said, "This is wickedness," and he pushed her back into the basket and pushed the lead cover down over its mouth.
Then I looked up- and there before me were two women, with the wind in their wings! They had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven ande arth,
"Where are they taking, the basket?" I asked the angel who was speaking to me.
He replied,"To the country of Babylonia to build a house for it. When it is ready, the basket will be set there in its place."