"THE VISION OF ZECHARIAH". [THE ANGEL IN THE MYTLE TREES.]

 UPON THE FOUR AND TWENTIETH DAY OF THE ELEVENTH MONTH, WHICH IS THE MONTH SEBAT, IN THE SECOND YEAR OF DARIUS, CAME THE WORD OF THE LORD UNTO ZECHARIAH, THE SON OF BERECHIAH, THE SON OF IDDO THE PROPHET, SAYING, "I SAW BY NIGHT, AND BEHELD A MAN RIDING UPON A RED HORSE, AND HE STOOD AMONG THE MYRTLE TREES THAT WERE IN THE BOTTOM; AND BEHIND HIM WERE THERE RED HORSES, SPECKLED, AND WHITE. THEN SAID I, ' O MY LORD, WHAT ARE THESE?'  AND THE ANGEL THAT TALKED WITH ME, AND SAID UNTO ME, ' I WILL SHOW THEE WHAT THESE BE'.
 AND THE MAN THAT STOOD AMONG THE MYRTLE TREES ANSWERED AND SAID,' 'THESE ARE THEY WHOM THE LORD HATH SENT TO WALK TO AND FRO THROUGH THE EARTH, AND BEHOLD, ALL THE EARTH SITTETH STILL, AND IS AT REST.
THEN THE ANGEL OF THE LORD ANSWERED AND SAID, 'O LORD OF HOSTS, HOW LONG WILT THOU HAVE MERCY ON JERUSALEM, AND ON THE CITIES OF JUDAH, AGAINST WHICH THOU HAS HAD INDIGNATION THESE THREE SCORE AND TEN YEARS?' AND THE LORD ANSWERED THE ANGEL THAT TALKED WITH ME WITH GOODWORDS AND COMFORTABLE WORDS. SO THE ANGEL THAT COMMUNED WITH ME SAID UNTO ME, ' CRY THOU SAYING, " THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOST; ' I AM JEALOUS FOR JERUSALEM AND FOR ZION WITH A GREAT JEALOUSY.  AND I AM VERY SORE DISPLEASED WITH THE HEATHEN THAT ARE AT EASE FOR I WAS BUT A LITTLE DISPLEASED, AND THEY HELPED FORWARD, THE AFFLICTION. THEREFORE,' THUS SAITH THE LORD; 'I AM RETURNED TO JERUSALEM. WITH MERCIES: MY HOUSE SHALL BE BUILT IN IT,'  SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, ' MY CITIES THROUGH PROSPERITY SHALL YET BE SPREAD ABROAD; AND THE LORD; SHALL COMFORT ZION, AND YET SHALL CHOOSE JERUSALEM."  " THEN LIFTED I UP MINE EYES, AND SAW AND BEHELD FOUR HORNS.  AND I SAID UNTO THE ANGEL THAT TALKED WITH ME, ' WHAT BE THESE?'  AND HE ANSWERED ME, ' THESE ARE THE HORNS WHICH HAVE SCATTERED JUDAH, ISRAEL, AND JERUSALEM.  " AND THE LORD SHOWED ME FOUR CARPENTERS." THEN SAID I, 'WHAT COME THOSE TO DO?' AND HE SPOKE, SAYING, "THESE ARE THE HORNS WHICH HAVE SCATTERED JUDAH, SO THAT NO MAN DID LIFT UP HIS HEAD: BUT THESE ARE COME TO FRAY THEM, TO CAST OUT THE HORNS OF THE GENTILES, WHICH LIFTED UP THEIR HORN OVER THE LAND OF JUDAH TO SCATTER IT.
I LIFTED UP MY EYES AGAIN, AND LOOKED, AND BEHELD A MAN WITH A MEASURING ROD IN HIS HAND.. THEN SAID I, ' WHITHER GOEST THOU?  AND HE SAID TO ME, 'TO MEASURE JERUSALEM, TO SEE WHAT THE BREADTH THEREOF, AND WHAT IS THE LENGTH HEREOF. 'AND, BEHOLD, THE ANGEL THAT TALKED WITH ME WENT FORTH; AND ANOTHER WENT OUT TO MEET HIM, AND SAID UNTO HIM' RUN SPEAK TO THIS YOUNG MAN, SAYING, JERUSALEM SHALL BE INHABITED  AS TOWNS WITHOUT WALLS FOR THE MULTITUDE OF MEN AND CATTLE THEREIN;" ' FOR I SAITH THE LORD 'WILL BE UNTO HER A WALL OF FIRE ROUND ABOUT, AND WILL BE THE GLORY IN THE MIDST OF HER."