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The Prophecy
of Zacharias 1
In the eighth month, in the second year of king Darius,
the word of the Lord came to Zacharias the son of Barachias,
the son of Addo, the prophet, saying:
The Lord hath been exceeding angry with your fathers.
And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts:
Turn ye to me, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will turn
to you, saith the Lord of hosts.
Be not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets
have cried, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Turn
ye from your evil ways, and from your wicked thoughts:
but they did not give ear, neither did they hearken
to me, saith the Lord.
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, shall
they live always?
But yet my words, and my ordinances, which I gave in
charge to my servants the prophets, did they not take
hold of your fathers, and they returned, and said: As
the Lord of hosts thought to do to us according to our
ways, and according to our devices, so he hath done
to us.
In the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month
which is called Sabath, in the second year of Darius,
the word of the Lord came to Zacharias the son of Barachias,
the son of Addo, the prophet, saying:
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 horses, red, speckled, and
white.
And I said: What are these, my Lord ? and the angel
that spoke in me, said to me: I will shew thee what
these are:
And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered,
and said: These are they, whom the Lord hath sent to
walk through the earth.
And they answered the angel of the Lord, that stood
among the myrtle trees, and said: We have walked through
the earth, and behold all the earth is inhabited, and
is at rest.
And 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 Juda, with which thou hast been
angry? this is now the seventieth year.
And the Lord answered the angel, that spoke in me, good
words, comfortable words.
And the angel that spoke in me, said to me: Cry thou,
saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I am zealous for
Jerusalem, and Sion with a great zeal.
And I am angry with a great anger with the wealthy nations:
for I was angry a little, but they helped forward the
evil.
Therefore thus saith the Lord: I will return to Jerusalem
in mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the
Lord of hosts: and the building line shall be stretched
forth upon Jerusalem.
Cry yet, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: My cities
shall yet flow with good things : and the Lord will
yet comfort Sion, and he will yet choose Jerusalem.
And I lifted up my eyes, and saw: and behold four horns.
And I said to the angel that spoke to me: What are these?
And he said to me: These are the horns that have scattered
Juda, and Israel, and Jerusalem.
And the Lord shewed me four smiths.
And I said: What come these to do? and he spoke, saying:
These are the horns which have scattered Juda every
man apart, and none of them lifted up his head: and
these are come to fray them, to cast down the horns
of the nations, that have lifted up the horn upon the
land of Juda to scatter it. |
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