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Zechariah 1:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I looked out in the night and saw a man riding on a chestnut  horse.  He was standing among the myrtle trees in the valley.  Behind him were chestnut, brown, and white horses.

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Then another horse went out, a fiery red one,  and its rider was allowed to take peace from the earth, so that people would slaughter one another. And a large sword was given to him.


‘Write to the angel   of the church in Ephesus: Thus says the one who holds the seven stars in his right hand and who walks among the seven golden lampstands:


Sword, awake against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate – this is the declaration of the  Lord of Armies. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones.


Instead of the thorn bush, a cypress will come up, and instead of the briar, a myrtle will come up; this will stand as a monument for the Lord, an everlasting sign that will not be destroyed.


I will plant cedar, acacia, myrtle, and olive trees in the wilderness. I will put juniper, elm, and cypress trees together in the desert,


I continued watching in the night visions, and suddenly one like a son of man was coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was escorted before him.


Daniel said, ‘In my vision at night I was watching, and suddenly the four winds of heaven  stirred up the great sea.


The mystery was then revealed to Daniel in a vision  at night, and Daniel praised the God of the heavens


For the High and Exalted One, who lives for ever, whose name is holy,  says this: ‘I live in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and lowly of spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the oppressed.


Among unsettling thoughts from visions in the night, when deep sleep  comes over men,


At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon  in a dream at night.  God said, ‘Ask.  What should I give you? ’


When Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand.  Joshua approached him and asked, ‘Are you for us or for our enemies? ’


But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, ‘You are about to die because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.’


My love has gone down to his garden, to beds of spice, to feed in the gardens and gather lilies.


My love is mine and I am his; he feeds among the lilies.


I looked, and there was a white horse.  Its rider held a bow;  a crown  was given to him, and he went out as a conqueror in order to conquer.


So they proclaimed and spread this news throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, ‘Go out to the hill country and bring back branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees to make shelters, just as it is written.’


On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah, son of Iddo:


Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, ‘They are the ones the Lord has sent to patrol the earth.’


They reported to the angel of the Lord standing among the myrtle trees, ‘We have patrolled the earth, and at the moment the whole earth is calm and quiet.’


That night God spoke to Israel in a vision:  ‘Jacob, Jacob! ’ he said. And Jacob replied, ‘Here I am.’


he said: ‘Listen to what I say: If there is a prophet among you from the  Lord, I make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream.





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