Thematic Bible
Zechariah 1:1 (show verse)
In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, saying,
Zechariah 1:2 (show verse)
"The LORD was very angry with your fathers.
Zechariah 1:3 (show verse)
Therefore say to them, Thus declares the LORD of hosts: Return to me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts.
Zechariah 1:4 (show verse)
Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.' But they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the LORD.
Zechariah 1:5 (show verse)
Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
Zechariah 1:6 (show verse)
But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? So they repented and said, As the LORD of hosts purposed to deal with us for our ways and deeds, so has he dealt with us."
Zechariah 1:7 (show verse)
On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, saying,
Zechariah 1:8 (show verse)
"I saw in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in the glen, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.
Zechariah 1:9 (show verse)
Then I said, 'What are these, my lord?'The angel who talked with me said to me, 'I will show you what they are.'
Zechariah 1:10 (show verse)
So the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered, 'These are they whom the LORD has sent to patrol the earth.'
Zechariah 1:11 (show verse)
And they answered the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees, and said, 'We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth remains at rest.'
Zechariah 1:12 (show verse)
Then the angel of the LORD said, 'O LORD of hosts, how long will you have no mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which you have been angry these seventy years?'
Zechariah 1:13 (show verse)
And the LORD answered gracious and comforting words to the angel who talked with me.
Zechariah 1:14 (show verse)
So the angel who talked with me said to me, 'Cry out, Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion.
Zechariah 1:15 (show verse)
And I am exceedingly angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little, they furthered the disaster.
Zechariah 1:16 (show verse)
Therefore, thus says the LORD, I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy; my house shall be built in it, declares the LORD of hosts, and the measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.
Zechariah 1:17 (show verse)
Cry out again, Thus says the LORD of hosts: My cities shall again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.'"
Zechariah 1:18 (show verse)
And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, four horns!
Zechariah 1:19 (show verse)
And I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these?" And he said to me, "These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem."
Zechariah 1:20 (show verse)
Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.
Zechariah 1:21 (show verse)
And I said, "What are these coming to do?" He said, "These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one raised his head. And these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it."