King James 3 (Jay P. Green, Sr. - 2006)Zechariah - chapter 1
1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the Word of Jehovah came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
2 With wrath Jehovah has been angry with your fathers.
3 And you say to them, So says Jehovah of Hosts: Turn back to Me, a statement of Jehovah of Hosts, and I will turn back to you, says Jehovah of Hosts.
4 Do not be as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have proclaimed to them, saying, So says Jehovah of Hosts: Turn back now from your evil ways and your evil doings. But they did not attend or hearken to Me, a statement of Jehovah.
5 Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
6 But My words and My statutes which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? And they turned back and said, As Jehovah of Hosts planned to do to us, according to our ways and according to our doings, so He has done with us.
7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, it is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the Word of Jehovah was to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,
8 I saw at night. And, behold! A Man riding on a red horse. And He stood in the midst of the myrtle trees in the ravine. And behind Him were red, reddish brown, and white horses.
9 And I said, My lord, what are these? And the angel who was speaking with me said to me, I will make you see what these are.
10 And the Man who stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are those whom Jehovah has sent to walk about in the earth.
11 And they answered the Angel in the midst of the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked about through the earth, and, behold, all the earth dwells and is at rest.
12 And the Angel of Jehovah answered and said, O Jehovah of Hosts, until when will You not have compassion on Jerusalem, and on the cities of Judah, which You have abhorred these seventy years?
13 And Jehovah answered the angel who was speaking with me with good words, words of comfort.
14 So the angel who was speaking with me said to me, Cry out, saying, So says Jehovah of Hosts: I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion, with a great jealousy.
15 And with great wrath I am angered at the nations at ease; in that I was but a little angry, and they helped for evil.
16 Therefore thus says Jehovah: I have returned to Jerusalem with compassions; My house shall be built in it, a statement of Jehovah of Hosts, and a line shall be stretched over Jerusalem.
17 Cry out again, saying, So says Jehovah of Hosts: My cities shall again overflow with goodness, and Jehovah shall comfort Zion, and shall choose Jerusalem.
18 And I lifted up my eyes and saw, and, behold, four horns!
19 And I said to the angel who was speaking with me, What are these? And he answered me, These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.
20 And Jehovah made me see four craftsmen.
21 And I said, What are these coming to do? And He spoke, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man lifts up his head. But these have come to terrify them, to throw down the horns of the nations who lifted up their horn over the land of Judah, to scatter it.
