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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Zechariah 1 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/zechariah/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/zechariah/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Zechariah 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../haggai/2.htm" title="Haggai 2">◄</a> Zechariah 1 <a href="../zechariah/2.htm" title="Zechariah 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/zechariah/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">A Call to Return to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span></p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came to the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was very angry with your fathers. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Therefore say to them, Thus declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts: Return to me, says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, and I will return to you, says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? So they repented and said, ‘As the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts purposed to deal with us for our ways and deeds, so has he dealt with us.’”</p> <p class="heading">A Vision of a Horseman</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came to the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“I saw in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in the glen, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then I said, ‘What are these, my lord?’ The angel who talked with me said to me, ‘I will show you what they are.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered, ‘These are they whom the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has sent to patrol the earth.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And they answered the angel of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> who was standing among the myrtle trees, and said, ‘We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth remains at rest.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then the angel of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said, ‘O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, how long will you have no mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which you have been angry these seventy years?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> answered gracious and comforting words to the angel who talked with me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>So the angel who talked with me said to me, ‘Cry out, Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts: I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And I am exceedingly angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little, they furthered the disaster. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Therefore, thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy; my house shall be built in it, declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, and the measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Cry out again, Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts: My cities shall again overflow with prosperity, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.’”</p> <p class="heading">A Vision of Horns and Craftsmen</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Ch 2:1 in Hebrew">a</a></sup></span> And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, four horns! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And I said to the angel who talked with me, “What are these?” And he said to me, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> showed me four craftsmen. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And I said, “What are these coming to do?” He said, “These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one raised his head. And these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> Ch 2:1 in Hebrew<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. 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