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

 UPON THE FOUR AND TWENTIETH DAY OF THE ELEVENTH MONTH, WHICH IS THE MONTH OF SEBAT, IN THE SECOND YEAR OF DARIUS, CAME THE WORD OF THE LORD TO 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 SAID UNTO ME, 'I WILL SHOW THEE WHAT THESE MAY BE.'  AND THE MAN THAT STOOD UPON THE MYRTLE TREES ANSWERED AND SAID, ' THESE ARE THEY WHOM THE LORD 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 NOT  HAVE MERCY ON JERUSALEM AND ON THE CITIES OF JUDAH
 AGAINST WHICH THOU HAST HAD INDIGNATION THESE THREE SCORE AND TEN YEARS?  AND THE LORD ANSWERED THE ANGEL THAT TALKED WITH ME WITH GOOD WORDS AND COMFORTABLE WORDS. SO THE ANGEL THAT COMMUNED WITH ME SAID UNTO ME, ' CRY THOU SAYING, "THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS: ' I AM JEALOUS FOR JERUSALEM AND FOR ZION WITH GREAT JEALOUSY. AND I AM VERY SORE DISPLEASED WITH THE HEATHEN THAT ARE AT EASE: FOR I WAS BUT A LITTLE DISPLEASED, AND THEY HELP FORWARD THE AFFLICTION. THEREFOR SAITH THE LORD; 'I AM RETURNED TO JERUSALEM WITH MERCIES: MY HOUSE SHALL BE BUILT IN IT. SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, ' AND A LINE SHALL BE STRETCHED FORTH UPON JERUSALEM' " CRY YET SAYING, ' THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS; ' MY CITIES THROUGH PROSPERITY SHALL YET BE SPREAD ABROAD; AND THE LORD SHALL YET COMFORT ZION, AND SHALL YET CHOOSE JERUSALEM." THEN LIFTED  MY EYES, AND SAW, AND BEHELD FOUR HORNS. AND I SAID UNTO THE ANGELS THAT TALK WITH ME, ' WHAT BE THESE?'  AND HE ANSWERED ME " THESE BE THE HORNS THAT 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 LINE IN HIS HAND. THEN SAID I ' WHITHER THOU GOEST THOU? AND HE SAID UNTO ME, " TO MEASURE JERUSALEM, TO SEE WHAT IS THE BREADTH THEREOF, AND WHAT IS THE LENGTH THEREOF. AND ' BEHOLD, THE ANGEL THAT TALKED WITH ME WENT FORTH, AND ANOTHER ANGEL 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."