Zacharias 1

¹In the eighth month in the second year of king Darius the word of our Lord was made to Zachary the son of Barachias, the son of Addo the Prophet, saying:

²Our Lord hath been wrath upon your fathers with wrath.

³And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Convert to me, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will convert to you, saith the Lord of hosts.

⁴Be not as your fathers, to whom the former Prophets cried, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Convert from your evil ways, and from your most wicked thoughts: and they heard not, neither attended to me, saith our Lord.

⁵Your fathers where are they? And the Prophets shall they live for ever?

⁶But yet my words, & mine ordinances, which I gave in commandment to my servants the Prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers, and they converted, and said: As the Lord of hosts thought to do to us according to our ways, & according to our inventions he hath done to us.

⁷In the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month Sabath: in the second year of Darius, the word of our Lord was made to Zacharie the son of Barachias, the son of Addo, the Prophet, saying:

⁸Isaw by night, and behold a man mounting upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle-trees, that were in the bottom: and after him horses red, speckled, and white.

⁹And I said: What are these, my Lord? And the Angel that spake in me, said to me: I will shew thee what these things are.

¹⁰And the man, that stood among the myrtle-trees answered, and said: These are they, whom our Lord sent to walk through the earth.

¹¹And they answered to the Angel of our Lord, which stood among the myrtle-trees, and said: We have walked through the earth, and lo all the earth is inhabited, & at rest.

¹²And the Angel of our Lord answered, and said: o Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem, & on the cities of Juda, with which thou hast been angry? This now is the seventieth year.

¹³And our Lord answered the Angel that spake in me, good words, comfortable words.

¹⁴And the Angel that spake in me, said to me: Cry, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I have been zealous for Jerusalem, and Sion with great zeal.

¹⁵And with great anger am I angry upon the wealthy nations: because I was angry a little, but they helped toward the evil.

¹⁶Therefore thus saith our Lord: I will return to Jerusalem in mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the Lord of hosts: & the plumb line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.

¹⁷As yet cry thou saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: As yet shall my cities flow with good things: and the Lord will yet comfort Sion, and he will yet choose Jerusalem.

¹⁸And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw: and behold four horns.

¹⁹And I said to the Angel that spake in me: What are these: And he said to me: These are the horns that have scattered Juda, and Israel, and Jerusalem.

²⁰And our Lord shewed me four artificers.

²¹And I said: What come these to do? Who spake saying: These are the horns, that scattered Juda every man a-part, and none of them lifted his head: and these are come to fray them, to cast down the horns of the nations, that have lifted the horn upon the land of Juda to scatter it.