so, to the contrary, I have planned in these days to do good to Jerusalem and Judah – do not fear!

Many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to seek the Lord who rules over all and to ask his favor.

Again the word of the Lord came to Zechariah:

I asked, “Where are you going?” He replied, “To measure Jerusalem ¹  in order to determine its width and its length.”

The Lord then addressed good, comforting words to the angelic messenger who was speaking to me.

The word of the Lord came to me as follows:

Then he cried out to me, “Look! The ones going to the northland have brought me ¹  peace about the northland.” ² 

At this point the angelic messenger ¹  who spoke to me went out, and another messenger came to meet him

The inhabitants of one will go to another and say, “Let’s go up at once to ask the favor of the Lord, to seek the Lord who rules over all. Indeed, I’ll go with you.”’

Harnessed to the first chariot were red horses, to the second black horses,

to the third white horses, and to the fourth spotted horses, all of them strong. ¹ 

Then all who survive from all the nations that came to attack Jerusalem will go up annually to worship the King, the Lord who rules over all, and to observe the Feast of Tabernacles. ¹ 

But if any of the nations anywhere on earth refuse to go up to Jerusalem ¹  to worship the King, the Lord who rules over all, they will get no rain.

Therefore say to the people: ¹  The Lord who rules over all ²  says, “Turn ³  to me,” says the Lord who rules over all, “and I will turn to you,” says the Lord who rules over all.

Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me as follows:

I asked, “What are these going to do?” He answered, “These horns are the ones that have scattered Judah so that there is no one to be seen. ¹  But the blacksmiths have come to terrify Judah’s enemies ²  and cut off the horns of the nations that have thrust themselves against the land of Judah in order to scatter its people.” ³ 

“I am about to make Jerusalem ¹  a cup that brings dizziness ²  to all the surrounding nations; indeed, Judah will also be included when Jerusalem is besieged.

The word of the Lord who rules over all came to me as follows:

The Lord then said to me, “Throw to the potter that exorbitant sum ¹  at which they valued me!” So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter ²  at the temple ³  of the Lord.

All the land will change and become like the Arabah ¹  from Geba to Rimmon, ²  south of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem will be raised up and will stay in its own place from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate ³  and on to the Corner Gate, ⁴  and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses. ⁵