IN the eighth month, in the second year of Dareyavesh, came the Word of Yahuah unto Zakaryahu, the son of Berekyahu, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
Yahuah has been sore displeased with your fathers.
Therefore say you unto them, Thus says Yahuah Tseva'oth; Turn ye unto me, says Yahuah Tseva'oth, and I will turn unto you, says Yahuah Tseva'oth.
Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus says Yahuah Tseva'oth; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, says Yahuah.
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live forever?
But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as Yahuah Tseva'oth thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so has he dealt with us.
Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shevat, in the second year of Dareyavesh, came the Word of Yahuah unto Zakaryahu, the son of Berekyahu, the son of Iddo 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 there red horses, speckled, and white.
Then said I, O adoniy, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will show you what these be.
And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom Yahuah has sent to walk to and fro through the earth.
And they answered the angel of Yahuah that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sits still, and is at rest.
Then the angel of Yahuah answered and said, O Yahuah Tseva'oth, how long will you not have mercy on Yerushalayim and on the cities of Yahudah, against which you have had indignation these threescore and ten years?
And Yahuah answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.
So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry you, saying, Thus says Yahuah Tseva'oth; I am jealous for Yerushalayim and for Tsiyon with a great jealousy.
And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.
Therefore thus says Yahuah; I am returned to Yerushalayim with mercies: my house shall be built in it, says Yahuah Tseva'oth, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Yerushalayim.
Cry yet, saying, Thus says Yahuah Tseva'oth; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and Yahuah shall yet comfort Tsiyon, and shall yet choose Yerushalayim.
Then lifted I up my eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Yahudah, Yashar'el, and Yerushalayim.
And Yahuah showed me four carpenters.
Then said I, What come these to do? And he spoke, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Yahudah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the other nations, which lifted up their horn over the land of Yahudah to scatter it.