Zechariah · Bible in Basic English
Zechariah 1 Bible in Basic English
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1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
1 EN el mes octavo, en el año segundo de Darío, fué palabra de Jehová á Zacarías profeta, hijo de Berechîas, hijo de Iddo, diciendo:
2 The Lord has been very angry with your fathers:
2 Enojóse Jehová con ira contra vuestros padres.
3 And you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord of armies: Come back to me, says the Lord of armies, and I will come back to you.
3 Les dirás pues: Así ha dicho Jehová de los ejércitos: Volveos á mí, dice Jehová de los ejércitos, y yo me volveré á vosotros, ha dicho Jehová de los ejércitos.
4 Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord.
4 No seáis como vuestros padres, á los cuales dieron voces los primeros profetas, diciendo: Así ha dicho Jehová de los ejércitos: Volveos ahora de vuestros malos caminos, y de vuestras malas obras: y no atendieron, ni me escucharon, dice Jehová.
5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?
5 Vuestros padres, ¿dónde están? y los profetas ¿han de vivir para siempre?
6 But my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the prophets, have they not overtaken your fathers? and turning back they said, As it was the purpose of the Lord of armies to do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so has he done.
6 Empero mis palabras y mis ordenanzas que mandé á mis siervos los profetas, ¿no alcanzaron á vuestros padres? Por eso se volvieron ellos y dijeron: Como Jehová de los ejércitos pensó tratarnos conforme á nuestros caminos, y conforme á nuestras obras, así lo hizo con nosotros.
7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
7 A los veinticuatro del mes undécimo, que es el mes de Sebath, en el año segundo de Darío, fué palabra de Jehová á Zacarías profeta, hijo de Berechîas, hijo de Iddo, diciendo:
8 I saw in the night a man on a red horse, between the mountains in the valley, and at his back were horses, red, black, white, and of mixed colours.
8 Vi de noche, y he aquí un varón que cabalgaba sobre un caballo bermejo, el cual estaba entre los mirtos que había en la hondura; y detrás de él había caballos bermejos, overos, y blancos.
9 Then I said, O my lord, what are these? And the angel who was talking to me said to me, I will make clear to you what they are.
9 Entonces dije: ¿Qué son éstos, señor mío? Y díjome el ángel que hablaba conmigo: Yo te enseñaré qué son éstos.
10 And the man who was between the mountains, answering me, said, These are those whom the Lord has sent to go up and down through the earth.
10 Y aquel varón que estaba entre los mirtos respondió, y dijo: Estos son los que Jehová ha enviado á recorrer la tierra.
11 And the man who was between the mountains, answering, said to the angel of the Lord, We have gone up and down through the earth, and all the earth is quiet and at rest.
11 Y ellos hablaron á aquel ángel de Jehová que estaba entre los mirtos, y dijeron: Hemos recorrido la tierra, y he aquí, toda la tierra está reposada y quieta.
12 Then the angel of the Lord, answering, said, O Lord of armies, how long will it be before you have mercy on Jerusalem and on the towns of Judah against which your wrath has been burning for seventy years?
12 Y respondió el ángel de Jehová, y dijo: Oh Jehová de los ejércitos, ¿hasta cuándo no tendrás piedad de Jerusalem, y de las ciudades de Judá, con las cuales has estado airado por espacio de setenta años?
13 And the Lord gave an answer in good and comforting words to the angel who was talking to me.
13 Y Jehová respondió buenas palabras, palabras consolatorias á aquel ángel que hablaba conmigo.
14 And the angel who was talking to me said to me, Let your voice be loud and say, These are the words of the Lord of armies: I am greatly moved about the fate of Jerusalem and of Zion.
14 Y díjome el ángel que hablaba conmigo: Clama diciendo: Así ha dicho Jehová de los ejércitos: Celé á Jerusalem y á Sión con gran celo:
15 And I am very angry with the nations who are living untroubled: for when I was only a little angry, they made the evil worse.
15 Y con grande enojo estoy airado contra las gentes que están reposadas; porque yo estaba enojado un poco, y ellos ayudaron para el mal.
16 So this is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Jerusalem with mercies; my house is to be put up in her, says the Lord of armies, and a line is to be stretched out over Jerusalem.
16 Por tanto, así ha dicho Jehová: Yo me he tornado á Jerusalem con miseraciones; en ella será edificada mi casa, dice Jehová de los ejércitos, y la plomada será tendida sobre Jerusalem.
17 And again let your voice be loud and say, This is what the Lord of armies has said: My towns will again be overflowing with good things, and again the Lord will give comfort to Zion and take Jerusalem for himself.
17 Clama aún, diciendo: Así dice Jehová de los ejércitos: Aun serán ensanchadas mis ciudades por la abundancia del bien; y aun consolará Jehová á Sión, y escogerá todavía á Jerusalem.
18 And lifting up my eyes I saw four horns.
18 Después alcé mis ojos, y miré, y he aquí cuatro cuernos.
19 And I said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these? And he said to me, These are the horns which have sent Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem in flight.
19 Y dije al ángel que hablaba conmigo: ¿Qué son éstos? Y respondióme: Estos son los cuernos que aventaron á Judá, á Israel, y á Jerusalem.
20 And the Lord gave me a vision of four metal-workers.
20 Mostróme luego Jehová cuatro carpinteros.
21 Then I said, What have these come to do? And he said, These are the horns which sent Judah in flight, and kept him from lifting up his head: but these men have come to send fear on them and to put down the nations who are lifting up their horns against the land of Judah to send it in flight.
21 Y yo dije: ¿Qué vienen éstos á hacer? Y respondióme, diciendo: Estos son los cuernos que aventaron á Judá, tanto que ninguno alzó su cabeza; mas éstos han venido para hacerlos temblar, para derribar los cuernos de las gentes, que alzaron el cuerno sobre la tierra de Judá para aventarla.
People & places in this chapter
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Berechiah
Son of Iddo and father of the prophet Zechariah.
Cited in the guide: Zechariah 1:1; Zechariah 1:7
Iddo
Named as the father of Berechiah and grandfather of the prophet Zechariah.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 5:1; Ezra 6:14; Zechariah 1:1
Zechariah
The prophet, son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, to whom the word of the LORD came in the eighth month of Darius's second year. Ezra 5:1 and 6:14 call him 'son of Iddo'; Zechariah…
Cited in the guide: Ezra 5:1; Ezra 6:14; Zechariah 1:1
Cross references (21)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Nehemiah 12:4; Matthew 23:35; Zechariah 1:7; Haggai 1:1; Ezra 4:24–5:1
- 2 Jeremiah 44:6; Ezekiel 22:31; Psalm 79:5–6; Lamentations 5:7; Zephaniah 2:1–3
- 3 Jeremiah 3:22; Malachi 3:7; Joel 2:12; Deuteronomy 30:2–10; Jeremiah 4:1
- 4 Psalm 78:8; Ezekiel 33:11; Jeremiah 35:15; Psalm 106:6–7; Isaiah 1:16–19
- 5 2 Peter 3:2–4; Ecclesiastes 12:5; Psalm 90:10; Hebrews 9:27; Ecclesiastes 12:7
- 6 Lamentations 2:17; Ezekiel 12:25–28; Deuteronomy 28:15; Jeremiah 23:20; Matthew 24:35
- 7 Zechariah 1:1
- 8 Revelation 6:4; Isaiah 55:13; Revelation 2:1; Isaiah 41:19; Zechariah 13:7
- 9 Zechariah 4:4–5; Revelation 7:13–14; Genesis 31:11; Zechariah 2:3; Daniel 9:22–23
- 10 Zechariah 1:11; Zechariah 6:5–8; Hebrews 1:14; Job 2:1–2; Zechariah 1:8
- 11 Zechariah 1:10; Matthew 24:30–31; Zechariah 1:8; Psalm 103:20–21; Zechariah 1:15
- 12 Jeremiah 29:10; Psalm 74:10; Daniel 9:2; Zechariah 7:5; Psalm 102:13
- 13 Isaiah 40:1–2; Jeremiah 29:10; Zechariah 2:4–12; Zechariah 4:1; Zephaniah 3:14–20
- 14 Joel 2:18; Isaiah 40:6; Zechariah 1:17; Isaiah 40:1; Zechariah 1:9
- 15 Jeremiah 51:24; Ezekiel 25:12–17; Isaiah 54:8; Isaiah 47:6–9; Isaiah 10:5–7
- 16 Zechariah 8:3; Ezekiel 37:24–28; Zechariah 2:10–11; Ezra 6:14–15; Zechariah 4:9
- 17 Isaiah 51:3; Zechariah 2:12; Ezekiel 36:10–11; Isaiah 61:4–6; Psalm 69:35
- 18 2 Kings 24:1–20; Joshua 5:13; Daniel 8:3–14; Zechariah 5:9; 2 Kings 15:29
- 19 Zechariah 1:21; Ezra 4:4; Zechariah 2:2; Zechariah 8:14; Ezra 4:1
- 20 Zechariah 10:3–5; Zechariah 12:2–6; Zechariah 9:12–16; Obadiah 21; Micah 5:5–6
- 21 Psalm 75:10; Psalm 75:4–5; Lamentations 2:17; Zechariah 1:19; Daniel 12:7
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Turning herself she prays that God too would turn to her: as it is said, "Turn ye unto Me, and I will turn unto you, saith the Lord." Or is it to be understood according to that way of speaking, "Turn, O Lord," that is make me turn, since the soul in this her turning feels difficulty and toil?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
… rest; and Haggai, Because I am with you, saith the Lord of Hosts; and My Spirit remaineth in the midst of you; and in like manner Zechariah, But receive My words and My statutes which I command by My Spirit, to My servants the Prophets; and other passages.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)