Zechariah 1:7-11

Common English Bible

First night vision

⁷On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month (the month of Shebat^[a]) in the second year of Darius, the Lord’s word came to Zechariah the prophet, Berechiah’s son and Iddo’s grandson:

⁸Tonight I looked and saw a man riding on a red horse,
        which was standing among the myrtle trees in the valley;
        and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.
⁹I said, “What are these, sir?”
The messenger speaking with me said,
        “I will show you what they are.”
¹⁰The man standing among the myrtles responded,
        “These are the ones the Lord sent to patrol the earth.”
¹¹Then they responded to the Lord’s messenger,
    who was standing among the myrtles,
        “We have patrolled the earth. The whole earth is peaceful and quiet.”