Zechariah 1

1 In the second year of Darius, in the eighth month, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah, son of Berechiah, son of Iddo:
2 The LORD was indeed angry with your fathers...
3 and say to them: Thus says the LORD of hosts: Return to me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts.
4 Be not like your fathers whom the former prophets warned: Thus says the LORD of hosts: Turn from your evil ways and from your wicked deeds. But they would not listen or pay attention to me, says the LORD.
5 Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, can they live forever?
6 But my words and my decrees, which I entrusted to my servants the prophets, did not these overtake your fathers? Then they repented and admitted: The LORD of hosts has treated us according to our ways and deeds, just as he had determined he would.
7 In the second year of Darius, on the twenty-fourth day of Shebat, the eleventh month, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah, son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, in the following way:
8 I had a vision during the night. There appeared the driver of a red horse, standing among myrtle trees in a shady place, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.
9 Then I asked, What are these, my lord?; and the angel who spoke with me answered me, I will show you what these are.
10 The man who was standing among the myrtle trees spoke up and said, These are they whom the LORD has sent to patrol the earth.
11 And they answered the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees and said, We have patrolled the earth; see, the whole earth is tranquil and at rest!
12 Then the angel of the Lord spoke out and said, O LORD of hosts, how long will you be without mercy for Jerusalem and the cities of Judah that have felt your anger these seventy years?
13 To the angel who spoke with me, the LORD replied with comforting words.
14 And the angel who spoke with me said to me, Proclaim: Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am deeply moved for the sake of Jerusalem and Zion,
15 and I am exceedingly angry with the complacent nations; whereas I was but a little angry, they added to the harm.
16 Therefore, says the LORD: I will turn to Jerusalem in mercy; my house shall be built in it, says the LORD of hosts, and a measuring line shall be stretched over Jerusalem.
17 Proclaim further: Thus says the LORD of hosts: My cities shall again overflow with prosperity; the LORD will again comfort Zion, and again choose Jerusalem.
18 I raised my eyes and looked; there were four horns.
19 Then I asked the angel who spoke with me what these were. He answered me, These are the horns that scattered Judah and Israeland Jerusalem.
20 Then the LORD showed me four blacksmiths. And I asked, What are these coming to do?
21 And he said, Here are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no man raised his head any more; but these have come to terrify them: to cast down the horns of the nations that raised their horns to scatter the land of Judah.

Zechariah 2

1 Again I raised my eyes and looked: there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.
2 Where are you going? I asked. To measure Jerusalem, he answered; to see how great is its width and how great its length.
3 Then the angel who spoke with me advanced, and another angel came out to meet him,
4 and said to him, Run, tell this to that young man: People will live in Jerusalem as though in open country, because of the multitude of men and beasts in her midst.
5 But I will be for her an encircling wall of fire, says the LORD, and I will be the glory in her midst.
6 Up, up! Flee from the land of the north, says the LORD; for I scatter you to the four winds of heaven, says the LORD.
7 Up, escape to Zion! you who dwell in daughter Babylon.
8 For thus said the LORD of hosts (after he had already sent me) concerning the nations that have plundered you: Whoever touches you touches the apple of my eye.
9 See, I wave my hand over them; they become plunder for their slaves. Thus you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me.
10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter Zion! See, I am coming to dwell among you, says the LORD.
11 Many nations shall join themselves to the LORD on that day, and they shall be his people, and he will dwell among you, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.
12 The LORD will possess Judah as his portion of the holy land, and he will again choose Jerusalem.
13 Silence, all mankind, in the presence of the LORD! for he stirs forth from his holy dwelling.

Zechariah 3

1 Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, while Satan stood at his right hand to accuse him.
2 And the angel of the LORD said to Satan, May the LORD rebuke you, Satan; may the LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this man a brand snatched from the fire?
3 Now Joshua was standing before the angel, clad in filthy garments.
4 He spoke and said to those who were standing before him, Take off his filthy garments, and clothe him in festal garments.
5 He also said, Put a clean miter on his head. And they put a clean miter on his head and clothed him with the garments. Then the angel of the LORD, standing, said, See, I have taken away your guilt.
6 The angel of the LORD then gave Joshua this assurance:
7 Thus says the LORD of hosts: If you walk in my ways and heed my charge, you shall judge my house and keep my courts, and I will give you access among these standing here.
8 Listen, O Joshua, high priest! You and your associates who sit before you are men of good omen. Yes, I will bring my servant the Shoot.
9 Look at the stone that I have placed before Joshua, one stone with seven facets. I will engrave its inscription, says the LORD of hosts, and I will take away the guilt of the land in one day.
10 On that day, says the LORD of hosts, you will invite one another under your vines and fig trees.

Zechariah 4

1 Then the angel who spoke with me returned and awakened me, like a man awakened from his sleep.
2 What do you see? he asked me. I see a lampstand all of gold, with a bowl at the top, I replied; on it are seven lamps with their tubes,
3 and beside it are two olive trees, one on the right and the other on the left.
4 Then I said to the angel who spoke with me, What are these things, my lord?
5 And the angel who spoke with me replied, Do you not know what these things are? No, my lord, I answered.
6 Then he said to me, This is the LORD'S message to Zerubbabel: Not by an army, nor by might, but by my spirit, says the LORD of hosts.
7 What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are but a plain. He shall bring out the capstone amid exclamations of 'Hail, Hail' to it.
8 This word of the LORD then came to me:
9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundations of this house, and his hands shall finish it; then you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.
10 For even they who were scornful on that day of small beginnings shall rejoice to see the select stone in the hands of Zerubbabel. These seven facets are the eyes of the LORD that range over the whole earth.
11 I then asked him, What are these two olive trees at each side of the lampstand?
12 And again I asked, What are the two olive tufts which freely pour out fresh oil through the two golden channels?
13 Do you not know what these are? he said to me. No, my lord, I answered him.
14 He said, These are the two anointed who stand by the LORD of the whole earth.

Zechariah 5

1 Then I raised my eyes again and saw a scroll flying.
2 What do you see? he asked me. I answered, I see a scroll flying; it is twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.
3 Then he said to me: This is the curse which is to go forth over the whole earth; in accordance with it shall every thief be swept away, and in accordance with it shall every perjurer be expelled from here.
4 I will send it forth, says the LORD of hosts, and it shall come into the house of the thief, or into the house of him who perjures himself with my name; it shall lodge within his house, consuming it, timber and stones.
5 Then the angel who spoke with me came forward and said to me, Raise your eyes and see what this is that comes forth.
6 What is it? I asked. And he answered, This is a bushel container coming. This is their guilt in all the land.
7 Then a leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting inside the bushel.
8 This is Wickedness, he said; and he thrust her inside the bushel, pushing the leaden cover into the opening.
9 Then I raised my eyes and saw two women coming forth with a wind ruffling their wings, for they had wings like the wings of a stork. As they lifted up the bushel into the air,
10 I said to the angel who spoke with me, Where are they taking the bushel?
11 He replied, To build a temple for it in the land of Shinar; when the temple is ready, they will deposit it there in its place.

Zechariah 6

1 Again I raised my eyes and saw four chariots coming out from between two mountains; and the mountains were of bronze.
2 The first chariot had red horses, the second chariot black horses,
3 the third chariot white horses, and the fourth chariot spotted horses--all of them strong horses.
4 I asked the angel who spoke with me, What are these, my lord?
5 The angel said to me in reply, These are the four winds of the heavens, which are coming forth after being reviewed by the LORD of all the earth.
6 The chariot with the black horses was turning toward the land of the north, the red and the white horses went after them, and the spotted ones went toward the land of the south.
7 As these strong horses emerged, eager to set about patrolling the earth, he said, Go, patrol the earth! Then, as they patrolled the earth,
8 he called out to me and said, See, they that go forth to the land of the north will make my spirit rest in the land of the north.
9 This word of the LORD then came to me:
10 Take from the returned captives Heldai, Tobijah, Jedaiah; and go the same day to the house of Josiah, son of Zephaniah (these had come from Babylon).
11 Silver and gold you shall take, and make a crown; place it on the head of (Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest) Zerubbabel.
12 And say to him: Thus says the LORD of hosts: Here is a man whose name is Shoot, and where he is he shall sprout, and he shall build the temple of the LORD.
13 Yes, he shall build the temple of the LORD, and taking up the royal insignia, he shall sit as ruler upon his throne. The priest shall be put at his right hand, and between the two of them there shall be friendly understanding.
14 The crown itself shall be a memorial offering in the temple of the LORD in favor of Heldai, Tobijah, Jedaiah, and the son of Zephaniah.
15 And they who are from afar shall come and build the temple of the LORD, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. And if you heed carefully the voice of the LORD your God....