WEBVTT 00:00.700 --> 00:05.540 Zechariah, Chapter One In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, 00:05.900 --> 00:10.280 came the word of the Lord unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the 00:10.280 --> 00:11.120 prophet, saying, 00:30.660 --> 00:35.660 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Turn ye now from your evil ways and from your evil 00:35.660 --> 00:36.000 doings. 00:37.060 --> 00:40.760 But they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the Lord. 00:41.860 --> 00:43.240 Your fathers, where are they? 00:43.380 --> 00:45.320 And the prophets, do they live for ever? 00:46.520 --> 00:50.480 But my words are my statutes, which I commanded my servants, the prophets. 00:51.140 --> 00:52.920 Did they not take hold of your fathers? 00:53.780 --> 00:59.060 And they returned and said, Like as the Lord of hosts thought to do unto us, 00:59.060 --> 01:04.000 according to our ways and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us. 01:04.500 --> 01:08.340 Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, 01:08.600 --> 01:12.040 in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord unto Zechariah, 01:12.120 --> 01:16.440 the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, I saw by night, 01:17.000 --> 01:21.140 and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that 01:21.140 --> 01:25.580 were in the bottom, and behind him were their red horses, speckled and white. 01:26.200 --> 01:29.140 Then said I, O my Lord, what are these? 01:29.640 --> 01:34.220 And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will show thee what these be. 01:35.080 --> 01:39.420 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they 01:39.420 --> 01:42.820 whom the Lord hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth. 01:43.280 --> 01:46.180 And they answered the angel of the Lord that stood among the myrtle trees and 01:46.180 --> 01:50.540 said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and behold, all the earth 01:50.540 --> 01:52.340 sitteth still and is at rest. 01:53.140 --> 01:58.400 Then the angel of the Lord answered and said, O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou 01:58.400 --> 02:02.780 not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast 02:02.780 --> 02:05.400 had indignation these threescore and ten years? 02:06.300 --> 02:10.000 And the Lord answered the angel that talked with me with good words and 02:10.000 --> 02:10.820 comfortable words. 02:11.620 --> 02:16.920 So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou saying, Thus saith the 02:16.920 --> 02:21.240 Lord of hosts, I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy, 02:21.240 --> 02:24.760 and I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease. 02:25.540 --> 02:29.480 For I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction. 02:30.880 --> 02:35.420 Therefore thus saith the Lord, I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies, 02:36.080 --> 02:40.180 my house shall be built in it, saith the Lord of hosts, and a line shall 02:40.180 --> 02:41.760 be stretched forth upon Jerusalem. 02:43.180 --> 02:48.920 Cry yet saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, My cities through prosperity shall 02:48.920 --> 02:53.900 yet be spread abroad, and the Lord shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose 02:53.900 --> 02:54.440 Jerusalem. 02:55.720 --> 02:59.980 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold, four horns. 03:00.780 --> 03:04.740 And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? 03:05.740 --> 03:10.460 And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, 03:10.780 --> 03:11.300 and Jerusalem. 03:12.860 --> 03:15.020 And the Lord showed me four carpenters. 03:15.720 --> 03:17.820 Then said I, What come these to do? 03:18.360 --> 03:22.840 And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man 03:22.840 --> 03:23.780 did lift up his head. 03:24.520 --> 03:28.260 But these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, 03:28.600 --> 03:31.400 which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.