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And the prophets, do they live forever? <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/zechariah/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But my words and my statutes, which I commanded by my Spirit to my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? Then they repented and said, 'Just as the LORD of hosts determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.'"<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/zechariah/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darayavush, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/zechariah/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>"I had a vision in the night, and look, a man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in a ravine; and behind him there were red, brown, and white horses. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/zechariah/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then I asked, 'My lord, what are these?'" The angel who talked with me said to me, "I will show you what these are." <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/zechariah/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered and said to me, "They are the ones the LORD has sent to go back and forth through the earth." <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/zechariah/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>They reported to the angel of the LORD who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, "We have walked back and forth through the earth, and look, all the earth is at rest and in peace."<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/zechariah/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then the angel of the LORD replied, "O LORD of hosts, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?" <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/zechariah/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The LORD answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/zechariah/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>So the angel who talked with me said to me, "Proclaim, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts: "I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/zechariah/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but only a little angry, but they added to the calamity." <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/zechariah/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Therefore thus says the LORD: "I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house will be built in it," says the LORD of hosts, "and a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem."' <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/zechariah/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>"Proclaim further, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts: "My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem."'"<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/zechariah/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and look, four horns. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/zechariah/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these?" He answered me, "These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem." <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/zechariah/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The LORD showed me four craftsmen. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/zechariah/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then I asked, "What are these coming to do?" 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