4. Don’t be like your ancestors to whom the former prophets preached:The Lord of heavenly forces proclaims: Turn from your evil ways and your evil deeds.But they didn’t listen;they didn’t draw near to me.
5. So where are your ancestors?Do the prophets live forever?
6. In fact, didn’t my words and laws,which I gave to my servants, the prophets,pursue your ancestors?And then the people changed their hearts, and they said,The Lord of heavenly forces has treated us according towhat we have done,exactly as he planned.
7. On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month (the month of Shebat) in the second year of Darius, the Lord’s word came to Zechariah the prophet, Berechiah’s son and Iddo’s grandson:
8. Tonight I looked and saw a man riding on a red horse,which was standing among the myrtle trees in the valley;and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.