¹In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh was to Zechariah the son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying:

²Yahweh was angry with wrath over your fathers.

³You shall say to them: Like this Yahweh of hosts said: Return to me, the utterance of Yahweh of hosts, and I will return to you, Yahweh of hosts said.

⁴Do not be as your fathers, to whom the first prophets called, saying: Like this Yahweh of hosts said: Return from your evil ways and your evil deeds; but they did not hear and did not heed me, the utterance of Yahweh.

⁵Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, will they live forever?

⁶Only my words and my statutes, which I commanded my slaves the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? And they returned and said: As Yahweh of hosts schemed to make to us, as our ways and as our deeds, so he made in us.

⁷On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, that is the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh was to Zechariah the son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying:

⁸I saw in the night, and behold, a man rode over a red horse, and he stood between the myrtles which were in the glen, and after him were horses red, sorrel, and white.

⁹I said: What are these, my lord? And the messenger that speaks in me said to me: I will show you what they are.

¹⁰And the man that stands between the myrtles answered and said: These are which Yahweh sent to go about in the land.

¹¹And they answered the messenger of Yahweh that stands between the myrtles and said: We went about in the land, and behold, all the land dwells and rests.

¹²And the messenger of Yahweh answered and said: Yahweh of hosts, until when will you not have compassion on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, which you denounced these seventy years?

¹³And Yahweh answered the messenger who was speaking with me, good words, words of comfort.

¹⁴And the messenger that speaks in me said to me: Call, saying: Like this Yahweh of hosts said: I am envied for Jerusalem and for Zion with great jealousy.

¹⁵And with great wrath I am angry over the arrogant nations, which when I was angry a little, they helped to the evil.

¹⁶To the so, like this Yahweh said: I returned to Jerusalem with compassions; my house will be built in it, the utterance of Yahweh of hosts, and a line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.

¹⁷Again call, saying: Like this Yahweh of hosts said: Again my cities will scatter from good, and Yahweh will comfort Zion again, and choose Jerusalem again.

¹⁸I lifted up my eyes, and I saw, and behold, four horns.

¹⁹And I said to the messenger that speaks in me: What are these? And he said to me: These are the horns which scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.

²⁰And Yahweh showed me four engravers.

²¹And I said: What come these to make? And he said, saying: These are the horns which scattered Judah, as the mouth of a man not lifted up his head; and these came to shudder them, to praise the horns of the nations, those who lift up a horn to the land of Judah to scatter it.