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A Call to Repentance

¹In the eighth month ⚓of the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came ⚓to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of ⚓Iddo the prophet, saying, ²“The Lord has been very angry with your fathers. ³Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Return ⚓to Me,” says the Lord of hosts, “and I will return to you,” says the Lord of hosts. ⁴“Do not be like your fathers, ⚓to whom the former prophets preached, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: ⚓“Turn now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.” ’ But they did not hear nor heed Me,” says the Lord.
⁵“Your fathers, where are they?
And the prophets, do they live forever?
⁶Yet surely ⚓My words and My statutes,
Which I commanded My servants the prophets,
Did they not overtake your fathers?
“So they returned and said:
⚓‘Just as the Lord of hosts determined to do to us,
According to our ways and according to our deeds,
So He has dealt with us.’ ” ’ ”

Vision of the Horses

⁷On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet: ⁸I saw by night, and behold, ⚓a man riding on a red horse, and it stood among the myrtle trees in the hollow; and behind him were⚓horses: red, sorrel, and white. ⁹Then I said, ⚓“My lord, what are these?” So the angel who talked with me said to me, “I will show you what they are.”
¹⁰And the man who stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, ⚓“These are the ones whom the Lord has sent to walk to and fro throughout the earth.”
¹¹⚓So they answered the Angel of the Lord, who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, “We have walked to and fro throughout the earth, and behold, all the earth is resting quietly.”

The Lord Will Comfort Zion

¹²Then the Angel of the Lord answered and said, “O Lord of hosts, ⚓how long will You not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which You were angry ⚓these seventy years?”
¹³And the Lord answered the angel who talked to me, with⚓good and comforting words. ¹⁴So the angel who spoke with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts:
“I am ⚓zealous for Jerusalem
And for Zion with great zeal.
¹⁵I am exceedingly angry with the nations at ease;
For ⚓I was a little angry,
And they helped—but with evil intent.”
¹⁶‘Therefore thus says the Lord:
⚓“I am returning to Jerusalem with mercy;
My ⚓house ⚓shall be built in it,” says the Lord of hosts,
“And ⚓a surveyor’s line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.” ’
¹⁷“Again proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts:
“My cities shall again spread out through prosperity;
⚓The Lord will again comfort Zion,
And ⚓will again choose Jerusalem.” ’ ”

Vision of the Horns

¹⁸Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there were four ⚓horns. ¹⁹And I said to the angel who talked with me, “What are these?”
So he answered me, ⚓“These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
²⁰Then the Lord showed me four craftsmen. ²¹And I said, “What are these coming to do?”
So he said, “These are the ⚓horns that scattered Judah, so that no one could lift up his head; but the craftsmen are coming to terrify them, to cast out the horns of the nations that ⚓lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”

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Yiang Sursĩ Arô Cũai Proai Án Píh Chu Loah

¹Tâng casâi tacual, cumo bar Dari-ut cỡt sốt máh puo cruang Pơ-sia, Yiang Sursĩ chiau santoiq nâi yỗn cũai tang bỗq án, ramứh Sa-chari con samiang Be-rakia, châu I-dô. ²Yiang Sursĩ Sốt Toâr Lứq ớn Sa-chari pỡq atỡng cũai proai neq: “Cứq Yiang Sursĩ khoiq nhôp lứq máh achúc achiac anhia. ³Ma sanua, cứq pai neq: ‘Cóq anhia píh loah chu cứq; chơ cứq ễ píh loah chu anhia.’ ⁴Chỗi cỡt ariang achúc achiac anhia. Khoiq dũn lứq chơ máh cũai tang bỗq cứq atỡng alới chỗi táq puai ranáq sâuq cớp ranáq lôih. Ma alới tỡ bữn trĩh, cớp tỡ bữn táq puai ariang cứq atỡng. ⁵Achúc achiac anhia cớp máh cũai tang bỗq ki tỡ bữn tamoong noâng sanua. ⁶Cứq khoiq chiau máh ŏ́c patâp cớp máh ŏ́c catoaih yỗn achúc achiac anhia na máh cũai tang bỗq, alới ca táq ranáq cứq; ma alới tỡ bữn noap. Ngkíq, alới khoiq chĩuq roap tôt. Chơ alới rapĩen cỡt mứt tamái cớp pai neq: ‘Sanua hái dáng samoât lứq Yiang Sursĩ Sốt Toâr Lứq khoiq yỗn hái roap tôt cỗ tian ranáq hái khoiq táq, ariang án khoiq anoat chơ.’”

Cũai Tang Bỗq Yiang Sursĩ Hữm Ŏ́c Sapáh Tễ Máh Aséh

⁷Tâng tangái bar chít la pỗn, casâi muoi chít la muoi (casâi Sê-bat), cumo bar Dari-ut cỡt sốt máh puo, Yiang Sursĩ chiau máh santoiq yỗn cứq na ŏ́c sapáh tâng sadâu. ⁸Cứq hữm muoi noaq ranễng Yiang Sursĩ ỡt aséh cusâu. Ranễng ki tangứt tâng avúng cóh, mpứng dĩ nỡm aluang phuom, cớp yáng clĩ án bữn pái lám aséh canŏ́h: aséh cusâu, aséh chĩr, cớp aséh cloc. ⁹Cứq blớh ranễng ki neq: “Achuaih ơi! Máh aséh nâi apáh tếc ntrớu?”
Ranễng ki ta‑ỡi cứq neq: “Cứq ễ apáh yỗn mới dáng aséh nâi sacâm ntrớu. ¹⁰Yiang Sursĩ ớn tỗp aséh ki pỡq tutuaiq chũop cốc cutễq nâi.”
¹¹Máh cũai ỡt aséh ki toâq atỡng loah yỗn ranễng ki dáng neq: “Tỗp hếq khoiq pỡq chũop cốc cutễq nâi, cớp bữn hữm neq: Chũop cốc cutễq nâi bữn moang ien khễ, tỡ bữn túh coat ntrớu.”⚓
¹²Chơ ranễng ki pai neq: “Ơ Yiang Sursĩ Sốt Toâr Lứq ơi! Anhia khoiq cutâu mứt chóq vil Yaru-salem cớp máh vil tâng cruang Yuda tapul chít cumo chơ. Noâng dũn máh léq ễn, nŏ́q anhia ễ sarũiq táq loah alới?”
¹³Yiang Sursĩ ta‑ỡi ranễng ki na santoiq aliam languat laham; ¹⁴chơ ranễng ki ớn cứq pau atỡng tễ ranáq Yiang Sursĩ Sốt Toâr Lứq khoiq pai neq: “Cứq sâng ayooq cớp pasếq lứq vil Yaru-salem, la vil Si-ôn. ¹⁵Ma cứq sâng cutâu mứt lứq chóq máh cruang cũai ca bũi óh cớp ỡt ien khễ sanua, yuaq bo cứq alíh loah ŏ́c cutâu chóq máh cũai proai cứq, máh cruang ki táq yỗn cũai proai cứq chĩuq tanhĩr túh coat sa‑ữi hỡn ễn. ¹⁶Yuaq ngkíq, cứq ễ píh loah pỡ vil Yaru-salem dŏq apáh ŏ́c sarũiq táq chóq vil ki. Dống Sang Toâr cứq noau ễ táq loah tamái, cớp vil ki la táq loah tamái tê.”
¹⁷Ranễng ki ớn cứq pau atỡng ễn neq: “Yiang Sursĩ Sốt Toâr Lứq pai neq: ‘Nỡ‑ra, máh vil cứq cỡt sốc bữn loah tamái. Cứq toâp ễ rưoh loah vil Yaru-salem cớp aliam máh cũai tâng vil Si-ôn.’”

Ŏ́c Sapáh Tễ Máh Tacoi

¹⁸Tâng ŏ́c sapáh canŏ́h, cứq hữm pỗn lám tacoi charán. ¹⁹Cứq blớh ranễng ki neq: “Máh tacoi nâi apáh tếc ntrớu?”
Ranễng ki ta‑ỡi neq: “Máh tacoi nâi sacâm tễ máh cruang sốt tâng cốc cutễq nâi ca táq yỗn cũai proai Yuda, I-sarel, cớp Yaru-salem cỡt pláh chap.”
²⁰Chơ Yiang Sursĩ sapáh yỗn cứq hữm pỗn náq cũai chiang táq tac. ²¹Cứq blớh neq: “Máh cũai nâi toâq táq ntrớu?”
Ranễng ki ta‑ỡi neq: “Alới toâq dŏq táq yỗn máh cũai cỡt ngcŏh, cớp ễ pupứt máh cruang cũai ca khoiq tĩn sarúq tâm cutễq Yuda cớp táq yỗn máh cũai ki ễn ỡt parsáng-parsaiq.”