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Zechariah 1 :: New International Version (NIV)

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A Call to Return to the Lord

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 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:

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:2 - “The LORD was very angry with your ancestors.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:3 - Therefore tell the people: This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘Return to me,’ declares the LORD Almighty, ‘and I will return to you,’ says the LORD Almighty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:4 - Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘Turn from your evil ways and your evil practices.’ But they would not listen or pay attention to me, declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:5 - Where are your ancestors now? And the prophets, do they live forever?

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:6 - But did not my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, overtake your ancestors? “Then they repented and said, ‘The LORD Almighty has done to us what our ways and practices deserve, just as he determined to do.’ ”

The Man Among the Myrtle Trees

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 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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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:8 - During the night I had a vision, and there before me was a man mounted on 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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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 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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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 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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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 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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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 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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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:13 - So the LORD spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who talked with me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:14 - Then the angel who was speaking to me said, “Proclaim this word: This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion,

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:15 - and I am very angry with the nations that feel secure. I was only a little angry, but they went too far with the punishment.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:16 - “Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there my house will be rebuilt. And the measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem,’ declares the LORD Almighty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:17 - “Proclaim further: This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘My towns will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.’ ”

Four Horns and Four Craftsmen

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:18 - Then I looked up, and there before me were four horns.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 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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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:20 - Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 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 their 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.”[fn]
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NIV Footnotes
In Hebrew texts 1:18-21 is numbered 2:1-4.
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Zechariah Chapter 1 — Additional Translations:

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