Zechariah 1:18-21
Lexham English Bible
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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- Zechariah 1:18 Zechariah 1:18–2:17 in the English Bible is 2:1–13 in the Hebrew Bible
- Zechariah 1:18 Literally “lifted up my eyes”
- Zechariah 1:21 Literally “according to the mouth of a man”
Zechariah 1:18-21
New Living Translation
Four Horns and Four Blacksmiths
18 [a]Then I looked up and saw four animal horns. 19 “What are these?” I asked the angel who was talking with me.
He replied, “These horns represent the nations that scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
20 Then the Lord showed me four blacksmiths. 21 “What are these men coming to do?” I asked.
The angel replied, “These four horns—these nations—scattered and humbled Judah. Now these blacksmiths have come to terrify those nations and throw them down and destroy them.”
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- 1:18 Verses 1:18-21 are numbered 2:1-4 in Hebrew text.
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