1In the eighth month of Darius's second year, God hit up Zechariah, Berechiah's kid, with a message, no cap.

2God’s been super upset with your fam, for real.

3So tell them, “Yo, the Lord of hosts says: Turn back to me, and I’ll turn back to you, fr.”

4Don’t be like your dads, the ones the old prophets called out, saying, “Turn from your sus ways!” But they just ignored it, periodt.

5Your dads, where they at? And the prophets, do they live forever?

6But my words and rules that I dropped on my prophets—didn’t your dads vibe with that? They came back and said, "God's been real with us, just like our actions deserve."

7On the 24th day of the 11th month, Sebat, in Darius's second year, God hit up Zechariah again.

8I peeped at night and saw a dude on a red horse chilling among myrtle trees, and behind him were some red, speckled, and white horses.

9I was like, “Yo, what’s up with these?” And the angel talking to me said, “I’ll spill the tea on what they are.”

10The dude among the myrtle trees said, “These are the ones God sent to cruise around the earth.”

11They told the angel standing there, “We’ve been cruising all over the earth, and guess what? Everything’s chill and at rest.”

12Then the angel of the Lord was like, “Yo, Lord of hosts, how long until you show Jerusalem and Judah some mercy? You’ve been mad for 70 years, no cap.”

13And the Lord hit back with good and comforting words to the angel talking to me.

14So the angel said, “Shout this: The Lord of hosts is jealous for Jerusalem and Zion, like, majorly.”

15And I’m super upset with the chill nations because I was only a bit upset, and they made it worse, fr.

16So here’s the deal from the Lord: I’m back in Jerusalem with mercy, my house is getting built there, and a line’s gonna be stretched over it.

17Shout this too: The Lord of hosts says, “My cities will thrive and spread out, and I’ll comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem again.”

18Then I looked up and saw four horns.

19I asked the angel, “What are these?” And he said, “These are the horns that scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”

20And the Lord showed me four carpenters.

21I asked, “What’s their deal?” And he said, “These are the carpenters that’ll take down the horns that scattered Judah, so no one could hold their head high. They’re here to throw down the horns of those nations that were flexing over Judah.”

1In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

2The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers.

3Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the Lord of hosts.

4Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the Lord.

5Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

6But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the Lord of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.

7Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

8I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.

9Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be.

10And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the Lord hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.

11And they answered the angel of the Lord that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.

12Then the angel of the Lord answered and said, O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?

13And the Lord answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.

14So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.

15And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.

16Therefore thus saith the Lord; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the Lord of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.

17Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the Lord shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.

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

19And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.

20And the Lord shewed me four carpenters.

21Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.