Category Archives: Zechariah

The Lord Comes and Reigns 1 A day of theLordis coming, Jerusalem, when your possessions will be plundered and divided up within your very walls. 2 I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will […]

A Man With a Measuring Line # 1 Then I looked up, and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand. 2 I asked, “Where are you going?” He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is.” 3 While the angel who was […]

A Call to Return to the Lord 1 In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of theLordcame to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo: 2 “TheLordwas very angry with your ancestors. 3 Therefore tell the people: This is what theLordAlmighty says: ‘Return to me,’ declares theLordAlmighty, […]

Clean Garments for the High Priest 1 Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of theLord, and Satanstanding at his right side to accuse him. 2 TheLordsaid to Satan, “TheLordrebuke you, Satan! TheLord, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this man a burning stick snatched from the fire?” […]

The Gold Lampstand and the Two Olive Trees 1 Then the angel who talked with me returned and woke me up, like someone awakened from sleep. 2 He asked me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a solid gold lampstand with a bowl at the top and seven lamps on it, with seven […]

The Flying Scroll 1 I looked again, and there before me was a flying scroll. 2 He asked me, “What do you see?” # I answered, “I see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.” 3 And he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the whole […]

Four Chariots 1 I looked up again, and there before me were four chariots coming out from between two mountains—mountains of bronze. 2 The first chariot had red horses, the second black, 3 the third white, and the fourth dappled—all of them powerful. 4 I asked the angel who was speaking to me, “What are […]

Justice and Mercy, Not Fasting 1 In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of theLordcame to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Kislev. 2 The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melek, together with their men, to entreat theLord 3 by asking the priests of the […]

The Lord Promises to Bless Jerusalem 1 The word of theLordAlmighty came to me. 2 This is what theLordAlmighty says: “I am very jealous for Zion; I am burning with jealousy for her.” 3 This is what theLordsays: “I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the Faithful City, […]

Judgment on Israel’s Enemies 1 A prophecy: The word of theLordis against the land of Hadrak and will come to rest on Damascus— for the eyes of all people and all the tribes of Israel # are on theLord— 2 and on Hamath too, which borders on it, and on Tyre and Sidon, though they […]