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Zechariah 1:7-21 (NET)

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⁷ On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month Shebat, in Darius'second year, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah son of Iddo, as follows: ⁸ I was attentive that night and saw a man seated on a red horse that stood among some myrtle trees in the ravine. Behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses. ⁹ Then I asked one nearby, "What are these, sir?" The angelic messenger who replied to me said, "I will show you what these are." ¹⁰ Then the man standing among the myrtle trees spoke up and said, "These are the ones whom the LORD has sent to walk about on the earth." ¹¹ The riders then agreed with the angel of the LORD, who was standing among the myrtle trees, "We have been walking about on the earth, and now everything is at rest and quiet." ¹² The angel of the LORD then asked, "who rules over all, how long before you have compassion on Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah which you have been so angry with for these seventy years?" ¹³ The LORD then addressed good, comforting words to the angelic messenger who was speaking to me. ¹⁴ Turning to me, the messenger then said, "Cry out that the LORD who rules over all says, 'I am very much moved for Jerusalem and for Zion. ¹⁵ But I am greatly displeased with the nations that take my grace for granted. I was a little displeased with them, but they have only made things worse for themselves. ¹⁶ " 'Therefore,'says the LORD, 'I have become compassionate toward Jerusalem and will rebuild my temple in it,'says the LORD who rules over all. 'Once more a surveyor's measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.' ¹⁷ Speak up again with the message of the LORD who rules over all: 'My cities will once more overflow with prosperity, and once more the LORD will comfort Zion and validate his choice of Jerusalem.' " ¹⁸ Once again I looked and this time I saw four horns. ¹⁹ So I asked the angelic messenger who spoke with me, "What are these?" He replied, "These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem." ²⁰ Next the LORD showed me four blacksmiths. ²¹ I asked, "What are these going to do?" He answered, "These horns are the ones that have scattered Judah so that there is no one to be seen. But the blacksmiths have come to terrify Judah's enemies and cut off the horns of the nations that have thrust themselves against the land of Judah in order to scatter its people."

Definition(s):
Jerusalem (Je-roo-sa-lem): vision of peace
Judah (Joo-da): the praise of the Lord; confession
Zechariah (Zekh-ar-eye-a): same as Zachariah
Zion (Zy-on): monument; raised up; sepulcher
Berechiah (Ber-ekh-eye-ah):
On (Onn):
So (Soh):