7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is called Shevat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying:
8 I saw by night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees, which were in the chasm. And behind him were horses: red, speckled, and white.
9 And I said, "What are these, my lord?" And the angel, who was speaking with me, said to me, "I will reveal to you what these are."
10 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, "These are they, whom the Lord has sent in order to walk through the earth."
11 And those who stood among the myrtle trees answered the angel of the Lord, and they said, "We have walked through the earth, and behold, all the earth is inhabited and is at rest."
12 And the angel of the Lord answered and said, "Lord of hosts, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, with which you have been angry? This is now the seventieth year."
13 And the Lord answered the angel, who had been speaking with me, good words, consoling words.