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The Man Among the Myrtle Trees
On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo.
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During the night I had a vision, and there before me was a man mounted on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in a ravine. Behind him were red, brown and white horses.
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Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, “They are the ones the Lord has sent to go throughout the earth.”
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A Man With a Measuring Line
Then I looked up, and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand.
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and said to him: “Run, tell that young man, ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the great number of people and animals in it.
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“Many nations will be joined with the Lord in that day and will become my people. I will live among you and you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you.
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Be still before the Lord, all mankind, because he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.”
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The Lord said to Satan, “The Lord rebuke you, Satan! The Lord, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this man a burning stick snatched from the fire?”
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Tell him this is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Here is the man whose name is the Branch, and he will branch out from his place and build the temple of the Lord.
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by asking the priests of the house of the Lord Almighty and the prophets, “Should I mourn and fast in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”
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This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Many peoples and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come,
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And many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to seek the Lord Almighty and to entreat him.”
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The Shepherd Struck, the Sheep Scattered
“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is close to me!” declares the Lord Almighty. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn my hand against the little ones.
