1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, 2 The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers. 3 Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. 4 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD. 5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? 6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
7 ¶ Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, 8 I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white. 9 Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be . 10 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth. 11 And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.
12 ¶ Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years? 13 And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words. 14 So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy. 15 And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction. 16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem. 17 Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
18 ¶ Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns. 19 And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem. 20 And the LORD shewed me four carpenters. 21 Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.
Omuwa ti ithana aantu ye, ya galukile kuye
1 Momwedhi omutihetatu gwomumvo omutiyali Darius sho a li omukwaniilwa gwaPersia, Omuwa okwa gandja elaka komuhunganeki Sakaria yaBerekia, omutekulu gwaIddo. 2 Omuwa Omunankondoawike okwa lombwele Sakaria, a lombwele iigwana a tye: “Ngame, Omuwa, onda li nda geele oohokulu, 3 ihe ngashingeyi otandi mu lombwele: ‘Galukileni kungame, nangame otandi galukile kune.’ 4 Inamu fa oohokulu. Aahunganeki oye ya lombwele nale oohapu dhandje, ye ethe oondjila dhawo oombwinayi niilonga yawo yaa fele. Ihe inaa pulakena ndje yo inaa vulika kungame. 5 Oohokulu naahunganeki mboka kaye ko we. 6 Aamati yandje aahunganeki oya gandja koohokulu omalombwelo nomalondodho gandje, ihe oye ga dhini noya monithwa iihuna. Nena oyi itedhulula noya tseya kutya ngame, Omuwa Omunankondoawike, onda li nde ya geele, ngaashi yi ilongele nonde shi utha, shi tye ngaaka.” 7 Momumvo omutiheyali sho Darius a li omukwaniilwa, mesiku etimilongo mbali netine lyomwedhi omutimulongo nogwotango (omwedhi Shebat) Omuwa okwa lombwele ndje memoniko uusiku. 8 Onda mono omuyengeli gwOmuwa a londa okakambe okatiligane. Okwa thikama mokati komiti omimirte molusilu, nokonima ye kwa li uukambe uukwawo — uutiligane, uukanga nuutokele. 9 Onde mu pula: “Tatekulu, uukambe mbuka otau holola shike?”
Okwa yamukula a ti: “Otandi ku ulukile shoka tau holola. 10 Omuwa okwe u tumu u ye u ka ndaadhe evi.” 11 Uukambe owa hokololele omuyengeli tau ti: “Otwe endagula akuhe notwa dhimbulula uuyuni auhe owa mwena nou na ombili.”
12 Nena omuyengeli okwa ti: “Omuwa Omunankondoawike, ongoye wa geele Jerusalem niilando yaJuda omimvo omilongo heyali ngashingeyi. Sigo uunake tashi kala ngawo inoo yi hololela esilohenda lyoye?”
13 Omuwa okwa hekeleke omuyengeli noohapu dho opala, 14 nomuyengeli okwa lombwele ndje, ndi uvithe shoka Omuwa Omunankondoawike a ti: “Ondi na ohole yomuule noshimpwiyu molwaJerusalem, oshilando shandje oshiyapuki, 15 nokandi na ombili nande niigwana mbyoka tayi nyanyukwa ya thuwa yi na ombili. Oshoka sho nda li nda geele aantu yandje, iigwana mbyoka oya gwedhele ko kuuwehame waantu yandje. 16 Onkee onda galukile kuJerusalem, ndi hololele oshilando esilohenda. Otempeli yandje otayi ka thikamekululwa, noshilando otashi ka tungululwa?”
17 Omuyengeli okwa lombwele ndje wo, ndi uvithe te ti: “Omuwa Omunankondoawike, ota ti kutya iilando ye otayi ka ninga iinelago ishewe noye ta ka kwatha natango Jerusalem notashi ka kala oshilando she mwene.”
Emoniko lyooniga
18 Memoniko ekwawo onda mono ooniga ne dhoondumetana. 19 Onda pula omuyengeli ngoka a li ta popitha ndje: “Ooniga ndhoka otadhi holola shike?”
20 Oye a yamukula: “Otadhi holola oonkondo dhuuyuni ndhoka dha halakanitha aantu yaJuda, Israel naJerusalem.”
21 Onda pula e te ti: “Aantu mbaka oye ya okuninga shike?”
Okwa yamukula a ti: “Oye ya okuhalutha nokudhenga iigwana mbyoka ya lyatagula evi lyaJuda noya halakanitha aantu yalyo.”
