Zechariah · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Zechariah 1 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
1 En el octavo mes del segundo año de Darío, el Señor habló al profeta Zacarías, hijo de Berequías, hijo de Ido:
1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, Yahweh’s word came to the prophet Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying,
2 «El Señor se ha enojado mucho con sus antepasados.
2 “Yahweh was very displeased with your fathers.
3 Por eso, diles: “Así dice el Señor de los ejércitos: Vuelvan a mí, dice el Señor de los ejércitos, y yo volveré a ustedes.
3 Therefore tell them, Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
4 No sean como sus antepasados. Los profetas de otros tiempos les dijeron: Abandonen sus malos caminos y sus malas acciones. Pero ellos no me escucharon ni me hicieron caso, dice el Señor.
4 Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Yahweh of Armies says, ‘Return now from your evil ways and from your evil doings;’ but they didn’t hear nor listen to me, says Yahweh.
5 ¿Dónde están sus antepasados? ¿Acaso los profetas viven para siempre?
5 Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
6 Sin embargo, ¿no se cumplieron contra sus antepasados mis palabras y mis órdenes, que di a mis siervos los profetas? Entonces se volvieron a mí y dijeron: El Señor de los ejércitos nos ha tratado tal como había decidido, según nuestros caminos y nuestras acciones”».
6 But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’”
7 El día veinticuatro del mes undécimo, el mes de Sebat, en el segundo año de Darío, el Señor habló al profeta Zacarías, hijo de Berequías, hijo de Ido:
7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, Yahweh’s word came to the prophet Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying,
8 Durante la noche vi a un hombre montado en un caballo rojo, entre las montañas del valle. Detrás de él había caballos rojos, negros, blancos y de varios colores.
8 “I had a vision in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in a ravine; and behind him there were red, brown, and white horses.
9 Entonces pregunté: «Mi señor, ¿qué son estos?». El ángel que hablaba conmigo respondió: «Te explicaré qué son».
9 Then I asked, ‘My lord, what are these?’” The angel who talked with me said to me, “I will show you what these are.”
10 El hombre que estaba entre las montañas me respondió: «Estos son los que el Señor ha enviado a recorrer la tierra».
10 The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered, “They are the ones Yahweh has sent to go back and forth through the earth.”
11 El hombre que estaba entre las montañas le dijo al ángel del Señor: «Hemos recorrido la tierra, y toda la tierra está tranquila y en reposo».
11 They reported to Yahweh’s angel who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, “We have walked back and forth through the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and in peace.”
12 Entonces el ángel del Señor dijo: «Señor de los ejércitos, ¿hasta cuándo seguirás sin tener misericordia de Jerusalén y de las ciudades de Judá, contra las que has estado enojado durante setenta años?».
12 Then Yahweh’s angel replied, “O Yahweh of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?”
13 El Señor respondió al ángel que hablaba conmigo con palabras buenas y consoladoras.
13 Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.
14 El ángel que hablaba conmigo me dijo: «Proclama en voz alta: Así dice el Señor de los ejércitos: Me importa profundamente lo que sucede con Jerusalén y con Sión.
14 So the angel who talked with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
15 Estoy muy enojado con las naciones que viven despreocupadas. Cuando yo estaba solo un poco enojado, ellas empeoraron el mal.
15 I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”
16 Por eso, así dice el Señor: He vuelto a Jerusalén con misericordia. Mi casa será reconstruida allí, dice el Señor de los ejércitos, y se extenderá una cuerda de medir sobre Jerusalén.
16 Therefore Yahweh says: “I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and a line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.”’
17 Proclama también en voz alta: Así dice el Señor de los ejércitos: Mis ciudades volverán a estar llenas de bienes. El Señor volverá a consolar a Sión y a escoger a Jerusalén».
17 “Proclaim further, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and Yahweh will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem.”’”
18 Alcé la vista y vi cuatro cuernos.
18 I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, four horns.
19 Le pregunté al ángel que hablaba conmigo: «¿Qué son estos?». Me respondió: «Son los cuernos que han hecho huir a Judá, a Israel y a Jerusalén».
19 I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these?” He answered me, “These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
20 Entonces el Señor me mostró cuatro trabajadores del metal.
20 Yahweh showed me four craftsmen.
21 Pregunté: «¿Qué han venido a hacer?». Él respondió: «Esos cuernos hicieron huir a Judá e impidieron que levantara la cabeza. Pero estos hombres han venido a llenarlos de terror y a derribar a las naciones que alzan sus cuernos contra la tierra de Judá para hacerla huir».
21 Then I asked, “What are these coming to do?” He said, “These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations that lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”
People & places in this chapter
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People
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)