NITHYAM SONGSZechariah 1
World English Bible (WEB) • 21 verses
1In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the LORD’s word came to the prophet Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying,
2“The LORD was very displeased with your fathers.
RelatedJeremiah 44:6 · Ezekiel 22:31 · Psalms 79:5-6 · Lamentations 5:7 · Matthew 23:30-32 · Zephaniah 2:1-3
3Therefore tell them, the LORD of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says the LORD of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says the LORD of Armies.
RelatedJeremiah 3:22 · Malachi 3:7 · Joel 2:12 · Jeremiah 4:1 · Deuteronomy 30:2-10 · Jeremiah 12:15
4Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: The LORD of Armies says, ‘Return now from your evil ways and from your evil doings;’ but they didn’t hear nor listen to me, says the LORD.
RelatedPsalms 78:8 · Jeremiah 35:15 · Psalms 106:6-7 · Ezekiel 33:11 · 2 Chronicles 36:15-16 · Matthew 3:8-10
5Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
RelatedEcclesiastes 12:5 · 2 Peter 3:2-4 · Psalms 90:10 · Ecclesiastes 12:7 · Hebrews 9:27 · Job 14:10-12
6But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’”
RelatedLamentations 2:17 · Ezekiel 12:25-28 · Deuteronomy 28:15 · Jeremiah 23:20 · Matthew 24:35 · Daniel 9:11-12
7On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the LORD’s word came to the prophet Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying,
RelatedZechariah 1:1
8“I had a vision in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in a ravine; and behind him there were red, brown, and white horses.
RelatedRevelation 6:4 · Isaiah 55:13 · Zechariah 13:7 · Revelation 2:1 · Isaiah 41:19 · Genesis 20:3
9Then I asked, ‘My lord, what are these?’” The angel who talked with me said to me, “I will show you what these are.”
RelatedRevelation 7:13-14 · Zechariah 4:4-5 · Zechariah 1:19 · Zechariah 5:5 · Zechariah 2:3 · Daniel 9:22-23
10The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered, “They are the ones the LORD has sent to go back and forth through the earth.”
11They reported to the LORD’s angel who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, “We have walked back and forth through the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and in peace.”
RelatedZechariah 1:10 · Matthew 24:30-31 · Zechariah 1:15 · Zechariah 1:8 · Psalms 103:20-21 · Isaiah 14:7
12Then the LORD’s angel replied, “O LORD of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?”
13The LORD answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.
RelatedIsaiah 40:1-2 · Jeremiah 29:10 · Zechariah 8:2-8 · Zechariah 2:4-12 · Jeremiah 31:3-14 · Jeremiah 30:10-22
14So the angel who talked with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘The LORD of Armies says: “I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
15I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”
RelatedEzekiel 25:12-17 · Jeremiah 51:24 · Isaiah 54:8 · Isaiah 47:6-9 · Psalms 83:2-5 · Zechariah 1:11
16Therefore the LORD says: “I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it,” says the LORD of Armies, “and a line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.”’
RelatedZechariah 8:3 · Zechariah 2:10-11 · Ezra 6:14-15 · Ezekiel 37:24-28 · Job 38:5 · Zechariah 4:9
17“Proclaim further, saying, ‘The LORD of Armies says: “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem.”’”
RelatedIsaiah 51:3 · Zechariah 2:12 · 2 Chronicles 6:6 · Isaiah 61:4-6 · Psalms 69:35 · Jeremiah 32:43-44
18I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, four horns.
Related2 Kings 24:1-20 · Daniel 8:3-14 · Joshua 5:13 · Zechariah 5:9 · Zechariah 2:1 · 2 Kings 15:29
19I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these?” He answered me, “These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
20The LORD showed me four craftsmen.
RelatedZechariah 10:3-5 · Zechariah 12:2-6 · Zechariah 9:12-16 · Micah 5:5-6 · Judges 11:16 · Micah 5:8-9
21Then I asked, “What are these coming to do?” He said, “These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations that lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”
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Translation: World English Bible (public domain) and the Tamil Old Version (BSI) — 1957.