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Zechariah’s Second Vision

18 [a] And I looked up[b] and I saw, and look, there were four horns! 19 And I said to the angel who was talking with me, “What are these?” And he said to me, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.” 20 Then Yahweh showed me four skilled craftsmen, 21 and I asked, “What are these coming to do?” And he answered, saying, “These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no man[c] lifted up his head; but these have come to frighten them, to strike down the horns of the nations that lifted a horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 1:18 Zechariah 1:18–2:17 in the English Bible is 2:1–13 in the Hebrew Bible
  2. Zechariah 1:18 Literally “lifted up my eyes”
  3. Zechariah 1:21 Literally “according to the mouth of a man”

The Vision of Four Horns

18 [a]Then I looked up and saw four horns. 19 I asked the angel who was talking to me, “What are those?”

So he answered me, “Those are the forces[b] that have dispersed Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”

The Vision of Four Artisans

20 Then the Lord showed me four artisans.

21 Then I asked, “What have they come to do?”

He answered, “Those horns that dispersed Judah—so that no one could lift up his head—those artisans[c] are coming to disrupt the power[d] of nations, tearing them down now that they’ve come to power and dispersed the land of Judah.”

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 1:18 This v. is 2:1 in MT, 1:19 is 2:2 in MT, and so through v. 21
  2. Zechariah 1:19 Lit. horns
  3. Zechariah 1:21 The Heb. lacks artisans
  4. Zechariah 1:21 Lit. to terrify the horns