Zechariah · God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Zechariah 1 God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
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1 En el octavo mes del año segundo de Darío, la Palabra de Yavé vino al profeta Zacarías, hijo de Berequías, hijo de Iddo:
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 Yavé estuvo muy airado contra sus antepasados.
2 “Yahweh was very displeased with your fathers.
3 Ahora diles: Yavé de las huestes dice: Regresen a Mí, dice Yavé de las huestes, y Yo me 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, a quienes los primeros profetas proclamaron: Yavé de las huestes dice: Regresen ahora de sus malos caminos y de sus malas obras. Pero no escucharon, ni me atendieron, dice Yavé.
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? ¿Viven los profetas para siempre?
5 Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
6 Pero mis Palabras y mis Preceptos que ordené por medio de mis esclavos profetas, ¿no alcanzaron a sus antepasados? Entonces se convirtieron y dijeron: Como Yavé de las huestes se propuso hacer con nosotros a causa de nuestros procedimientos y de nuestras obras, así nos hizo.
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 24 del mes undécimo, que es el mes de Sebat, el año segundo de Darío, la Palabra de Yavé vino al profeta Zacarías, hijo de Berequías, hijo de Iddo:
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 Vi de noche, y ahí estaba un varón que cabalgaba sobre un caballo rojizo, el cual estaba entre los mirtos de la hondonada. Detrás de él había caballos rojizos, blancos y color canela.
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 dije: ʼadón mío, ¿para qué son éstos? Y el ángel que hablaba conmigo me contestó: Yo te mostraré para qué son éstos.
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 Y el varón que permanecía entre los mirtos respondió: Éstos son los que Yavé envió 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 [Sus jinetes] informaron al Ángel de Yavé, que estaba entre los mirtos, y dijeron: Recorrimos la tierra, y ciertamente toda la tierra está tranquila y reposada.
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 de Yavé tomó la palabra: ¡Oh Yavé de las huestes! ¿Hasta cuándo no te compadecerás de Jerusalén y de las ciudades de Judá, contra las cuales estuviste airado estos 70 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 Yavé respondió al ángel que hablaba conmigo buenas palabras de consolación.
13 Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.
14 Entonces me dijo el ángel que hablaba conmigo: Proclama: Yavé de las huestes dice: Tuve gran celo por Jerusalén y por Sion.
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 Pero estoy muy airado contra las naciones confiadas, porque mientras estuve airado solo un poco, ellos promovieron el desastre.
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 tanto Yavé dice: Me volví a Jerusalén con compasión. En ella será edificada mi Casa, dice Yavé de las huestes, y el cordel de medir será tendido 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 además: Yavé de las huestes dice: Otra vez rebosarán de prosperidad mis ciudades. Yavé volverá a consolar a Sion, y otra vez escoge 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 Después alcé mis ojos, miré, y ahí estaban cuatro cuernos.
18 I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, four horns.
19 Y dije al ángel que hablaba conmigo: ¿Qué hacen éstos? Y me respondió: Éstos son los cuernos que dispersaron a Judá, Israel y 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 Yavé me mostró cuatro artesanos.
20 Yahweh showed me four craftsmen.
21 Y yo pregunté: ¿Qué vienen a hacer éstos? Me respondió: Aquéllos eran los cuernos que dispersaron a Judá, de tal manera que nadie levantaba su cabeza. Pero éstos vinieron para hacerlos temblar y derribar los cuernos de las naciones que alzaron su cuerno contra la tierra de Judá para dispersarla.
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.”
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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)