1In the eighth month in the first of the month, in year two of Darius, the word of LORD JEHOVAH was on Zechariah, son of Barachiah, son of Adu the Prophet, saying: 2LORD JEHOVAH was angry with your fathers with great wrath 3Say to them, “Thus says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts: ‘return to me, says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts, and I shall return to you, says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts 4And you will not be as your fathers to whom the former Prophets preached, and they said, thus says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts: return from your evil paths and from your evil works, and they did not hear and they did not listen to me, says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts 5Where are your fathers and my Prophets? Do they live forever? 6But my words and my commandments that I commanded my Servants the Prophets, your fathers remembered them and they considered and they said: ‘as LORD JEHOVAH OF HOSTS considered to do to us, according to our ways and according to our schemes, so he has done to us’

7In the day four and twenty in the eleventh month that is Shebat, in the year two of Darius, the word of LORD JEHOVAH was on Zechariah, son of Barachiah, son of Adu the Prophet, saying: 8I saw in the night a man riding on a red horse, and he stood between trees which give shade, and behind him were horses, red and spotted and white 9And I said, ”What are these, my Lord?” The Angel who spoke with me answered and said to me: “I shall show you what these are.” 10The man who stood among the trees answered and he said to me: “These are those whom LORD JEHOVAH sent to walk in the earth” 11And they answered and they said to the Angel of LORD JEHOVAH who stood among the trees: ”We have walked in the Earth, and all the Earth sat and was silent.”

12And the Angel of LORD JEHOVAH answered and said: ”LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts, how long are you not merciful to Jerusalem and to the cities of Judea, for you were angry with them, behold, seventy years!” 13And LORD JEHOVAH answered the Angel who spoke with me, beautiful words and words of comfort 14And the Angel who spoke with me said to me: “Preach and say, thus says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts: ‘I am zealous with a great zeal for Jerusalem and for Tsion 15And I am angry with the nations that are in tumult, for I was a little angry and they helped the evil 16Because of these facts, thus says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts: ‘I have returned to Jerusalem in mercies and my house I have given within her, says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts, and a cord shall be stretched over Jerusalem” 17Again, preach and say: thus says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts, therefore the city shall be emptied of good, and LORD JEHOVAH shall build Tsion again and shall build Jerusalem again

18And I lifted my eyes and I saw, and behold, four horns 19And I said to the Angel who spoke with me: ’what are these, my Lord?’ And he said to me, ’these are the horns that dispersed Yehuda and Israel and Jerusalem’ 20And LORD JEHOVAH showed me four Carpenters 21And I said: ”What are these coming to do?” And he said to me: ”These are the horns that dispersed Yehuda like the mouth of a man that does not lift up his head, and they who shake them came, and they will uproot the horns of the Gentiles who were lifting up a horn against the land of Judea to scatter it