A Call to Repentance
(Jeremiah 3:11–25; Hosea 14:1–3)
In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying: Mat 23:35Neh 12:4Ezr 4:24Hag 1:1Zec 1:7Zec 7:1Hag 2:10Luk 11:51
“The LORD was very angry with your fathers. Jer 44:6Ezk 22:31Lam 5:7Psa 79:5-6Act 7:52Mat 23:30-32Zep 2:1-32Ch 36:13-20 So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.’ Jer 3:22Mal 3:7Jol 2:12Deu 30:2-10Jer 4:1Hos 6:1Isa 31:6Jer 12:15
Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ Psa 78:8Ezk 33:11Jer 35:15Psa 106:6-72Ch 36:15-16Isa 1:16-19Jer 11:6-8Mat 3:8-10
But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.
Where are your fathers now? And the prophets, do they live forever? 2Pe 3:2-4Ecc 12:5Ecc 12:7Heb 9:27Job 14:10-12Psa 90:10Act 13:36Ecc 1:4 But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’” Lam 2:17Ezk 12:25-28Deu 28:15Jer 23:20Mat 24:35Amo 9:10Dan 9:11-12Jer 44:28
The Vision of the Horses
On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, 1 in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo. Zec 1:1
I looked out into the night and saw a man riding on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in the hollow, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses. Rev 6:4Isa 55:13Isa 41:19Rev 2:1Zec 13:71Ki 3:5Dan 2:19Dan 7:13
“What are these, my lord?” I asked. Rev 7:13-14Zec 4:4-5Dan 9:22-23Gen 31:11Zec 1:19Zec 2:3Zec 5:5Dan 10:11-14
And the angel who was speaking with me replied, “I will show you what they are.”
Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, “They are the ones the LORD has sent to patrol the earth.” Zec 1:11Heb 1:14Zec 6:5-8Job 1:7Job 2:1-2Psa 103:20-21Zec 1:8Zec 4:10
And the riders answered the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees, “We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and tranquil.” Zec 1:10Mat 24:30-31Psa 103:20-21Zec 1:15Zec 1:81Th 5:3Dan 10:20Isa 14:7
Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?” Dan 9:2Jer 29:10Psa 102:13Psa 74:10Zec 7:5Rev 6:102Ch 36:21Heb 7:25
So the LORD spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who was speaking with me. Isa 40:1-2Jer 29:10Amo 9:11-15Jer 30:10-22Jer 31:3-14Zec 1:14-16Zec 1:9Zec 2:4-12
Then the angel who was speaking with me said, “Proclaim this word: This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion, Jol 2:18Isa 40:6Isa 40:1Zec 1:17Zec 1:9Hos 11:8Isa 38:22Isa 42:13 but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity. 2’ Ezk 25:12-17Jer 51:24Isa 54:8Isa 47:6-9Isa 10:5-7Jer 48:11-13Oba 1:10-16Psa 123:4
Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there My house will be rebuilt, declares the LORD of Hosts, and a measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.’ Zec 8:3Ezk 37:24-28Ezr 6:14-15Zec 2:10-11Isa 54:8-10Job 38:5Zec 4:9Ezk 39:25-29
Proclaim further that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘My cities will again overflow with prosperity; the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.’” Isa 51:3Zec 2:122Ch 6:6Ezk 36:10-11Isa 14:1Isa 44:26Isa 54:8Isa 61:4-6
The Vision of the Horns and the Craftsmen
Then I looked up and saw four horns. 2Ki 24:1-20Dan 8:3-14Jos 5:13Zec 5:92Ki 15:292Ki 17:1-62Ki 18:9-12Dan 11:28-35 So I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these?” Ezr 4:4Zec 1:21Zec 2:2Zec 8:14Ezr 4:1Ezr 4:7Jer 50:17-18Zec 1:9
And he told me, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen. Zec 10:3-5Zec 12:2-6Zec 9:12-161Sa 12:11Deu 33:25Isa 54:15-17Jdg 11:16Jdg 11:18
“What are these coming to do?” I asked. Psa 75:10Lam 2:17Psa 75:4-5Zec 1:19Dan 12:7
And He replied, “These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could raise his head; but the craftsmen have come to terrify them and throw down these horns of the nations that have lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.”