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1In the eighth month in the second year of Darius, the LORD ’s word came to Zechariah the prophet, Berechiah’s son and Iddo’s grandson:
2The LORD was terribly angry with your ancestors.
3But you must say to the people,
The LORD of heavenly forces proclaims: Return to me,
says the LORD of heavenly forces,
4Don’t be like your ancestors to whom the former prophets preached:
The LORD of heavenly forces proclaims: Turn from your evil ways and your evil deeds.
5So where are your ancestors?
6In fact, didn’t my words and laws,
And then the people changed their hearts, and they said,
The LORD of heavenly forces has treated us according to
what we have done,
exactly as he planned.
7On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month (the month of Shebat) in the second year of Darius, the LORD ’s word came to Zechariah the prophet, Berechiah’s son and Iddo’s grandson:[#1.7 January–February]
8Tonight I looked and saw a man riding on a red horse,
9I said, “What are these, sir?”
The messenger speaking with me said,
10The man standing among the myrtles responded,
11Then they responded to the LORD ’s messenger,
who was standing among the myrtles,
12Then the LORD ’s messenger, who was speaking with me, said:
“LORD of heavenly forces,
13The LORD responded to the messenger who was speaking with me
with kind and compassionate words.
14The messenger speaking with me called out,
“This is what the LORD of heavenly forces says:
16Therefore, this is what the LORD says:
I have returned to Jerusalem with compassion.
My house will be built in it, says the LORD of heavenly forces.
Let a measuring line be stretched over Jerusalem.
17“Call out again,
The LORD of heavenly forces proclaims:
18Then I looked up and saw four horns.[#1.18 2:1 in Heb]
19I said to the messenger speaking with me,
He said to me,
20Then the LORD showed me four metalworkers.
21I said,
“What are they coming to do?”
And he said,
“These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could raise his head.
The metalworkers have come to terrify them and to destroy the horns of the nations, those who were attacking the land of Judah with their horns to scatter it.”