Zechariah 1:18-21

New International Reader's Version

A Vision of Four Horns and Four Skilled Workers

¹⁸ Then I looked up and saw four animal horns. ¹⁹ I spoke to the angel who was talking with me. “What are these horns?” I asked.

He said, “They are the powerful nations that scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem.”

²⁰ Then the Lord showed me four skilled workers. ²¹ I asked, “What are they coming to do?”

He answered, “The horns are the powerful nations that scattered the people of Judah. That made Judah helpless. But these four skilled workers have come to terrify the horns. The workers will destroy the power of those nations. Those nations had used their power to scatter Judah’s people.”