Zechariah 1:11

And they answered the angel of the Lord, that stood among the myrtle trees, and said: We have walked through the earth, and behold all the earth is inhabited, and is at rest.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

10And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered, and said: These are they, whom the Lord hath sent to walk through the earth.

12And 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 Juda, with which thou hast been angry? this is now the seventieth year.

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Cross References

Psalms 68:17Why suspect, ye curdled mountains? A mountain in which God is well pleased to dwell: for there the Lord shall dwell unto the end.

Isaiah 14:7The whole earth is quiet and still, it is glad and hath rejoiced.

Zechariah 1:8I 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 horses, red, speckled, and white.

Zechariah 1:15And I am angry with a great anger with the wealthy nations: for I was angry a little, but they helped forward the evil.

Matthew 13:41The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals, and them that work iniquity.

Matthew 24:30And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all tribes of the earth mourn: and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with much power and majesty.

Matthew Henry on Zechariah 1:8-18

The Vision of the Horse and Myrtles; Intercession for Jerusalem. ( b. c. 520.) 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… Read the whole commentary →

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