| 1:1 | In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo |
| 1:2 | "The LORD was very angry with your forefathers.
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| 1:3 | Therefore tell the people |
| 1:4 | Do not be like your forefathers, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed |
| 1:5 | Where are your forefathers now? And the prophets, do they live forever?
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| 1:6 | But did not my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, overtake your forefathers? "Then they repented and said, "The LORD Almighty has done to us what our ways and practices deserve, just as he determined to do.""
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| 1:7 | On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo.
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| 1:8 | During the night I had a vision-- and there before me was a man riding a red horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in a ravine. Behind him were red, brown and white horses.
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| 1:9 | I asked, "What are these, my lord?" The angel who was talking with me answered, "I will show you what they are."
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| 1:10 | Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, "They are the ones the LORD has sent to go throughout the earth."
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| 1:11 | And they reported to the angel of the LORD, who was standing among the myrtle trees, "We have gone throughout the earth and found the whole world at rest and in peace."
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| 1:12 | Then the angel of the LORD said, "LORD Almighty, how long will you withhold mercy from Jerusalem and from the towns of Judah, which you have been angry with these seventy years?"
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| 1:13 | So the LORD spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who talked with me.
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| 1:14 | Then the angel who was speaking to me said, "Proclaim this word |
| 1:15 | but I am very angry with the nations that feel secure. I was only a little angry, but they added to the calamity."
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| 1:16 | "Therefore, this is what the LORD says |
| 1:17 | "Proclaim further |
| 1:18 | Then I looked up-- and there before me were four horns!
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| 1:19 | I asked the angel who was speaking to me, "What are these?" He answered me, "These are the horns that scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem."
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| 1:20 | Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.
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| 1:21 | I asked, "What are these coming to do?" He answered, "These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could raise his head, but the craftsmen have come to terrify them and throw down these horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter its people."
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| 2:1 | Then I looked up-- and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand!
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| 2:2 | I asked, "Where are you going?" He answered me, "To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is."
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| 2:3 | Then the angel who was speaking to me left, and another angel came to meet him
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| 2:4 | and said to him |
| 2:5 | And I myself will be a wall of fire around it," declares the LORD, "and I will be its glory within."
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| 2:6 | "Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north," declares the LORD, "for I have scattered you to the four winds of heaven," declares the LORD.
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| 2:7 | "Come, O Zion! Escape, you who live in the Daughter of Babylon!"
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| 2:8 | For this is what the LORD Almighty says |
| 2:9 | I will surely raise my hand against them so that their slaves will plunder them. Then you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me.
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| 2:10 | "Shout and be glad, O Daughter of Zion. For I am coming, and I will live among you," declares the LORD.
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| 2:11 | "Many nations will be joined with the LORD in that day and will become my people. I will live among you and you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me to you.
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| 2:12 | The LORD will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land and will again choose Jerusalem.
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| 2:13 | Be still before the LORD, all mankind, because he has roused himself from his holy dwelling."
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| 3:1 | Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right side to accuse him.
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| 3:2 | The LORD said to Satan, "The LORD rebuke you, Satan! The LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this man a burning stick snatched from the fire?"
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| 3:3 | Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes as he stood before the angel.
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| 3:4 | The angel said to those who were standing before him, "Take off his filthy clothes." Then he said to Joshua, "See, I have taken away your sin, and I will put rich garments on you."
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| 3:5 | Then I said, "Put a clean turban on his head." So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him, while the angel of the LORD stood by.
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| 3:6 | The angel of the LORD gave this charge to Joshua |
| 3:7 | "This is what the LORD Almighty says |
| 3:8 | ""Listen, O high priest Joshua and your associates seated before you, who are men symbolic of things to come |
| 3:9 | See, the stone I have set in front of Joshua! There are seven eyes on that one stone, and I will engrave an inscription on it," says the LORD Almighty, "and I will remove the sin of this land in a single day.
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| 3:10 | ""In that day each of you will invite his neighbor to sit under his vine and fig tree," declares the LORD Almighty."
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| 4:1 | Then the angel who talked with me returned and wakened me, as a man is wakened from his sleep.
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| 4:2 | He asked me, "What do you see?" I answered, "I see a solid gold lampstand with a bowl at the top and seven lights on it, with seven channels to the lights.
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| 4:3 | Also there are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left."
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| 4:4 | I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?"
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| 4:5 | He answered, "Do you not know what these are?" "No, my lord," I replied.
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| 4:6 | So he said to me, "This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel |
| 4:7 | "What are you, O mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground. Then he will bring out the capstone to shouts of "God bless it! God bless it!""
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| 4:8 | Then the word of the LORD came to me |
| 4:9 | "The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this temple; his hands will also complete it. Then you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me to you.
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| 4:10 | "Who despises the day of small things? Men will rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. "(These seven are the eyes of the LORD, which range throughout the earth.)"
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| 4:11 | Then I asked the angel, "What are these two olive trees on the right and the left of the lampstand?"
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| 4:12 | Again I asked him, "What are these two olive branches beside the two gold pipes that pour out golden oil?"
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| 4:13 | He replied, "Do you not know what these are?" "No, my lord," I said.
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| 4:14 | So he said, "These are the two who are anointed to serve the Lord of all the earth."
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| 18:1 | After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven. He had great authority, and the earth was illuminated by his splendor.
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| 18:2 | With a mighty voice he shouted |
| 18:3 | For all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries."
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| 18:4 | Then I heard another voice from heaven say |
| 18:5 | for her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.
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| 18:6 | Give back to her as she has given; pay her back double for what she has done. Mix her a double portion from her own cup.
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| 18:7 | Give her as much torture and grief as the glory and luxury she gave herself. In her heart she boasts, "I sit as queen; I am not a widow, and I will never mourn."
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| 18:8 | Therefore in one day her plagues will overtake her |
| 18:9 | "When the kings of the earth who committed adultery with her and shared her luxury see the smoke of her burning, they will weep and mourn over her.
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| 18:10 | Terrified at her torment, they will stand far off and cry |
| 18:11 | "The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her because no one buys their cargoes any more--
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| 18:12 | cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet cloth; every sort of citron wood, and articles of every kind made of ivory, costly wood, bronze, iron and marble;
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| 18:13 | cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and bodies and souls of men.
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| 18:14 | "They will say, "The fruit you longed for is gone from you. All your riches and splendor have vanished, never to be recovered."
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| 18:15 | The merchants who sold these things and gained their wealth from her will stand far off, terrified at her torment. They will weep and mourn
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| 18:16 | and cry out |
| 18:17 | In one hour such great wealth has been brought to ruin!" "Every sea captain, and all who travel by ship, the sailors, and all who earn their living from the sea, will stand far off.
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| 18:18 | When they see the smoke of her burning, they will exclaim, "Was there ever a city like this great city?"
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| 18:19 | They will throw dust on their heads, and with weeping and mourning cry out |
| 18:20 | Rejoice over her, O heaven! Rejoice, saints and apostles and prophets! God has judged her for the way she treated you.""
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| 18:21 | Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea, and said |
| 18:22 | The music of harpists and musicians, flute players and trumpeters, will never be heard in you again. No workman of any trade will ever be found in you again. The sound of a millstone will never be heard in you again.
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| 18:23 | The light of a lamp will never shine in you again. The voice of bridegroom and bride will never be heard in you again. Your merchants were the world's great men. By your magic spell all the nations were led astray.
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| 18:24 | In her was found the blood of prophets and of the saints, and of all who have been killed on the earth."
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