ZECHARIAH Chapter 1 (GNB)
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In the eighth month of the second year that Darius was emperor of Persia, the
LORD gave this message to the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah and
grandson of Iddo. |
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The LORD Almighty told Zechariah to say to the people, "I, the LORD, was
very angry with your ancestors, |
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but now I say to you, 'Return to me, and I will return to you. |
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Do not be like your ancestors. Long ago the prophets gave them my message,
telling them not to live evil, sinful lives any longer. But they would not
listen to me or obey me. |
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Your ancestors and those prophets are no longer alive. |
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Through my servants the prophets I gave your ancestors commands and warnings,
but they disregarded them and suffered the consequences. Then they repented
and acknowledged that I, the LORD Almighty, had punished them as they
deserved and as I had determined to do.' " |
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In the second year that Darius was emperor, on the twenty-fourth day of the
eleventh month (the month of Shebat), the LORD gave me a message in a vision
at night. |
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I saw someone riding a red horse. He had stopped among some myrtle trees in a
valley, and behind him were other horses---red, dappled, and white. |
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I asked him, "Sir, what do these horses mean?" He answered, "I
will show you what they mean. |
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The LORD sent them to go and inspect the earth." |
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They reported to the angel: "We have been all over the world and have
found that the whole world lies helpless and subdued." |
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Then the angel said, "Almighty LORD, you have been angry with Jerusalem
and the cities of Judah for seventy years now. How much longer will it be
before you show them mercy?" |
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The LORD answered the angel with comforting words, |
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and the angel told me to proclaim what the LORD Almighty had said: "I
have a deep love and concern for Jerusalem, my holy city, |
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and I am very angry with the nations that enjoy quiet and peace. For while I
was holding back my anger against my people, those nations made the
sufferings of my people worse. |
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So I have come back to Jerusalem to show mercy to the city. My Temple will be
restored, and the city will be rebuilt." |
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The angel also told me to proclaim: "The LORD Almighty says that his
cities will be prosperous again and that he will once again help Jerusalem
and claim the city as his own." |
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In another vision I saw four ox horns. |
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I asked the angel that had been speaking to me, "What do these horns
mean?" He answered, "They stand for the world powers that have
scattered the people of Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem." |
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Then the LORD showed me four workers with hammers. |
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I asked, "What have they come to do?" He answered, "They have
come to terrify and overthrow the nations that completely crushed the land of
Judah and scattered its people." |
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