Zechariah 1:6-8

International Standard Version

⁶ But my words and my statutes that I gave as commands to my servants the prophets—did they not overwhelm your ancestors? And they returned to me:^[a] ‘The Lord of the Heavenly Armies acted toward us just as he planned to do—in keeping with our lifestyles^[b] and in keeping with our actions.’”

The Vision of Horses

⁷ On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month (the month Shebat) in the second year of the reign of^[c] Darius, this message from the Lord came to Berechiah’s son Zechariah, the grandson of Iddo the prophet: ⁸ “I stared into the night, and there was a man mounted on a red horse! The horse^[d] was standing among the myrtle trees in a ravine. Behind him there were red, brown,^[e] and white horses.”