Zacarias 1

1No oitavo mês do segundo ano de Dario, a palavra do SENHOR veio ao profeta Zacarias, filho de Berequias, filho de Ido, dizendo: 2O SENHOR se irou muito contra vossos pais. 3Portanto dize-lhes: Assim diz o SENHOR dos exércitos: Voltai-vos a mim, diz o SENHOR dos exércitos, e eu me voltarei a vós, diz o SENHOR dos exércitos. 4E não sejais como vossos pais, aos quais os profetas antigos clamavam, dizendo: Assim diz o SENHOR dos exércitos: Convertei-vos de vossos maus caminhos e de vossos maus atos; porém não escutaram, nem me deram ouvidos, diz o SENHOR. 5Onde estão vossos pais? E os profetas, vivem eles para sempre? 6Porém quanto às minhas palavras e meus estatutos que havia mandado a meus servos os profetas, não alcançaram a vossos pais? Assim eles, arrependendo-se, diziam: Tal como o SENHOR dos exércitos planejou fazer segundo nossos caminhos e nossos antos, assim ele fez conosco. 7No vigésimo quarto dia do décimo primeiro mês (que é o mês de Sebate), no ano segundo de Dario, a palavra do SENHOR veio ao profeta Zacarias, filho de Berequias, filho de Ido, dizendo: 8Vi de noite, e eis um homem montado sobre um cavalo vermelho, parado entre as murtas que estavam num vale profundo; e atrás dele estavam cavalos vermelhos, castanhos, e brancos. 9E eu disse: Meu senhor, o que são estes? E o anjo que falava comigo me disse: Eu te mostrarei o que estes são. 10Então o homem que estava entre os murtas respondeu, dizendo: Estes são os que o SENHOR enviou para andarem pela terra. 11E eles responderam ao anjo do SENHOR que estava entre os murtas, e disseram: Nós já andamos pela terra, e eis que toda a terra está tranquila e quieta. 12Então o anjo do SENHOR disse: Ó SENHOR dos exércitos, até quando não terás compaixão de Jerusalém e das cidades de Judá, contra as quais ficaste irado estes setenta anos? 13E o SENHOR respondeu ao anjo que falava comigo palavras boas, palavras de consolo. 14E o anjo que falava comigo me disse: Fala em voz alta, dizendo: Assim diz o SENHOR dos exércitos: Tenho grande zelo por Jerusalém e por Sião; 15E tenho muito grande ira contra as nações tranquilas; porque eu estava pouco irado, porém elas pioraram o mal. 16Portanto assim diz o SENHOR: Eu me voltarei a Jerusalém com misericórdia; minha casa será reconstruída nela, diz o SENHOR dos exércitos, e a corda de medir será estendida sobre Jerusalém. 17Fala em voz alta mais, dizendo: Assim diz o SENHOR dos exércitos: Minhas cidades novamente transbordarão de prosperidade; porque o SENHOR novamente consolará a Sião, e novamente escolherá a Jerusalém. 18Depois levantei meus olhos, e olhei, e eis que havia quatro chifres. 19E perguntei ao anjo que falava comigo: O que são estes? E ele me disse: Estes são os chifres que dissiparam Judá, a Israel, e Jerusalém. 20E o SENHOR me mostrou quatro ferreiros. 21Então eu disse: O que estes vêm a fazer? E ele falou, dizendo: Estes são os chifres que dispersaram Judá, de modo que ninguém levantava sua cabeça. Estes ferreiros vieram para derrubar os chifres das nações, que levantaram seus chifres contra a terra de Judá para dispersá-la.

1In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, Yahweh’s word came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying, 2“Yahweh was very displeased with your fathers. 3Therefore tell them: Thus says Yahweh of Armies: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies. 4Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus says Yahweh of Armies, ‘Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;’ but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh. 5Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? 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 Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’” 7On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, Yahweh’s word came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying, 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. 9Then I asked, ‘My lord, what are these?’” The angel who talked with me said to me, “I will show you what these are.” 10The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered, “They are the ones Yahweh has sent to go back and forth through the earth.” 11They reported to Yahweh’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.” 12Then Yahweh’s angel replied, “O Yahweh 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?” 13Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words. 14So the angel who talked with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh of Armies: “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.” 16Therefore thus says Yahweh: “I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and a line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.”’ 17“Proclaim further, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh of Armies: “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and Yahweh will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem.”’” 18I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four horns. 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.” 20Yahweh showed me four craftsmen. 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, which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”

1In de achtste maand, in het tweede jaar van Darius, geschiedde het woord des HEEREN tot Zacharia, den zoon van Berechja, den zoon van Iddo, den profeet, zeggende: 2De HEERE is zeer vertoornd geweest tegen uw vaderen. 3Daarom zeg tot hen: Alzo zegt de HEERE der heirscharen: Keert weder tot Mij, spreekt de HEERE der heirscharen, zo zal Ik weder tot ulieden keren, zegt de HEERE der heirscharen. 4Weest niet als uw vaderen, tot dewelke de vorige profeten riepen, zeggende: Alzo zegt de HEERE der heirscharen: Bekeert u toch van uw boze wegen, en uw boze handelingen; maar zij hoorden niet, en zij luisterden niet naar Mij, spreekt de HEERE. 5Uw vaderen, waar zijn die? En de profeten, zullen zij in eeuwigheid leven? 6Nochtans Mijn woorden en Mijn inzettingen, die Ik Mijn knechten, den profeten, geboden had, hebben zij uw vaders niet getroffen? zodat zij wederkerende zeiden: Gelijk als de HEERE der heirscharen gedacht heeft ons te doen, naar onze wegen en naar onze handelingen, alzo heeft Hij met ons gedaan. 7Op den vier en twintigsten dag, in de elfde maand (die de maand Schebat is), in het tweede jaar van Darius, geschiedde het woord des HEEREN tot Zacharia, den zoon van Berechja, den zoon van Iddo, den profeet, zeggende: 8Ik zag des nachts, en ziet, een Man rijdende op een rood paard, en Hij stond tussen de mirten, die in de diepte waren; en achter Hem waren rode, bruine en witte paarden. 9En Ik zeide: Mijn Heere! wat zijn deze? Toen zeide tot mij de Engel, Die met mij sprak: Ik zal u tonen, wat deze zijn. 10Toen antwoordde de Man, Die tussen de mirten stond, en zeide: Deze zijn het, die de HEERE uitgezonden heeft, om het land te doorwandelen. 11En zij antwoordden den Engel des HEEREN, Die tussen de mirten stond, en zeiden: Wij hebben het land doorwandeld, en ziet, het ganse land zit en het is stil. 12Toen antwoordde den Engel des HEEREN, en zeide: HEERE der heirscharen! hoe lang zult Gij U niet ontfermen over Jeruzalem, en over de steden van Juda, op welke Gij gram geweest zijt, deze zeventig jaren? 13En de HEERE antwoordde den Engel, Die met mij sprak, goede woorden, troostelijke woorden. 14En de Engel, Die met mij sprak, zeide tot mij: Roep uit, zeggende: Alzo zegt de HEERE der heirscharen: Ik ijver over Jeruzalem en over Sion met een groten ijver. 15En Ik ben met een zeer groten toorn vertoornd tegen die geruste heidenen; want Ik was een weinig toornig, maar zij hebben ten kwade geholpen. 16Daarom zegt de HEERE alzo: Ik ben tot Jeruzalem wedergekeerd met ontfermingen; Mijn huis zal daarin gebouwd worden, spreekt de HEERE der heirscharen, en het richtsnoer zal over Jeruzalem uitgestrekt worden. 17Roep nog, zeggende: Alzo zegt de HEERE der heirscharen: Mijn steden zullen nog uitgespreid worden vanwege het goede; want de HEERE zal Sion nog troosten, en Hij zal Jeruzalem nog verkiezen. 18En ik hief mijn ogen op, en zag; en ziet, er waren vier hoornen. 19En ik zeide tot den Engel, Die met mij sprak: Wat zijn deze? En Hij zeide tot mij: Dat zijn de hoornen, welke Juda, Israel en Jeruzalem verstrooid hebben. 20En de HEERE toonde mij vier smeden. 21Toen zeide ik: Wat komen die maken? En Hij sprak, zeggende: Dat zijn de hoornen, die Juda verstrooid hebben, zodat niemand zijn hoofd ophief; maar deze zijn gekomen om die te verschrikken, om de hoornen der heidenen neder te werpen, welke den hoorn verheven hebben tegen het land van Juda, om dat te verstrooien.