Zechariah 1:2-18

Zechariah 1:2-18

[2] The LORD  hath been sore  displeased  with your fathers.  [3] Therefore say  the LORD  of hosts;  Turn  ye unto me, saith  the LORD  of hosts,  and I will turn  unto you, saith  the LORD  of hosts.  [4] Be ye not as your fathers,  unto whom the former  prophets  have cried,  saying,  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.  [5] Your fathers,  where are they? and the prophets,  do they live  for ever?  [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. [7] Upon the four  and twentieth  day  of the eleventh  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,  [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.  [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. [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.  [11] And they answered  the angel  that stood  among the myrtle trees,  and said,  We have walked to and fro  through the earth,  sitteth still,  and is at rest.  [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?  [13] And the LORD  answered  the angel  that talked  with me with good  words  and comfortable  words.  [14] So the angel  that communed  with me said  unto me, Cry  thou, saying,  the LORD  of hosts;  I am jealous  for Jerusalem  and for Zion  with a great  jealousy.  [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.  [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,  shall be stretched forth  upon Jerusalem.  [17] Cry  yet, saying,  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.  [18] Then lifted I up  mine eyes,  and saw,  and behold four  horns.