¹In the eighth month, 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,

¹Osmi mesec v drugem letu Darija je prišla beseda GOSPODOVA Zahariju, sinu Berekija, sina Idovega, proroku, govoreč:

²The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers.

²GOSPOD se je silno srdil nad očeti vašimi.

³Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.

³Zato jim reci: Tako pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami: Izpreobrnite se k meni, govori GOSPOD nad vojskami, in obrnem se k vam, pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami.

⁴Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.

⁴Ne bodite kakor očetje vaši, ki so jim glasili prejšnji proroki, govoreč: Tako veli GOSPOD nad vojskami: Izpreobrnite se vendar od hudobnih potov in od hudih dejanj svojih! ali niso poslušali in niso pazili name, govori GOSPOD.

⁵Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

⁵Očetje vaši, kje so? in proroki, žive li vekomaj?

⁶But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.

⁶Toda besede in postave moje, ki sem jih zapovedal hlapcem svojim prorokom, niso li zadele očetov vaših? In izpreobrnili so se in rekli: Kakor je GOSPOD nad vojskami namenil nam storiti, po naših potih in po naših dejanjih, tako nam je storil.

⁷Upon 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,

⁷Štiriindvajseti dan enajstega meseca, ki je mesec Šebat, v drugem letu Darija, je prišla beseda GOSPODOVA Zahariju, sinu Berekija, Idovega sina, proroku, in je rekel:

⁸I saw by night, and behold 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.

⁸Videl sem po noči, in glej, mož je sedel na rdečem konju in stal med mirtami, ki so rasle v dolini, in za njim so bili konji rdeči, rjavi in beli.

⁹Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be.

⁹In rečem: Gospod moj, kdo so ti? In angel, ki je govoril z menoj, mi reče: Pokažem ti, kdo so ti.

¹⁰And 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.

¹⁰In odgovori mož, ki je stal med mirtami, in reče: Ti so, ki jih je GOSPOD poslal, da prehodijo zemljo.

¹¹And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.

¹¹In odgovore angelu GOSPODOVEMU, ki je stal med mirtami, rekoč: Obhodili smo zemljo, in glej, vsa zemlja je tiha in počiva.

¹²Then 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 threescore and ten years?

¹²Tedaj izpregovori angel GOSPODOV in reče: O GOSPOD nad vojskami, doklej se ne usmiliš Jeruzalema in mest Judovih, na katera si se srdil že sedemdeset let?

¹³And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.

¹³In GOSPOD je odgovoril angelu, ki je z menoj govoril, dobre besede, tolažilne besede.

¹⁴So 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 a great jealousy.

¹⁴Angel pa, ki je govoril z menoj, mi reče: Oglási in reci: Tako pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami: Vnet sem za Jeruzalem in za Sion z veliko gorečnostjo;

¹⁵And 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.

¹⁵in z velikim srdom se srdim nad lahkoživnimi poganskimi narodi; kajti jezil sem se le malo, oni pa so nesrečo pospeševali.

¹⁶Therefore thus 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.

¹⁶Zato pravi tako GOSPOD: Obrnil sem se zopet k Jeruzalemu z mnogim usmiljenjem; hiša moja se bo zidala v njem, govori GOSPOD nad vojskami, in merska vrv bo raztegnjena čez Jeruzalem.

¹⁷Cry 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.

¹⁷Dalje še oglási in reci: Tako pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami: Mesta moja bodo zopet imela obilost dobrot; in GOSPOD zopet potolaži Sion in zopet izvoli Jeruzalem.

¹⁸Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.

¹⁸In povzdignem oči in vidim, in glej: štirje rogovi.

¹⁹And 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.

¹⁹In rečem angelu, ki je govoril z menoj: Kaj so ti? In mi reče: To so rogovi, ki so razkropili Judo, Izraela in Jeruzalem.

²⁰And the LORD shewed me four carpenters.

²⁰Potem mi pokaže GOSPOD štiri kovače.In vprašam: Kaj so ti prišli delat? In mi reče: Oni so rogovi, ki so tako razkropili Judo, da ni nihče več vzdignil glave; ti pa so prišli, da one prestrašijo in da odbijejo rogove narodom, ki so povzdignili rog zoper deželo Judovo, da bi jo razmetali.

²¹Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, 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.

²¹In vprašam: Kaj so ti prišli delat? In mi reče: Oni so rogovi, ki so tako razkropili Judo, da ni nihče več vzdignil glave; ti pa so prišli, da one prestrašijo in da odbijejo rogove narodom, ki so povzdignili rog zoper deželo Judovo, da bi jo razmetali.