Zechariah 1:7-9

Good News Translation

The Prophet's Vision of the Horses

⁷ In the second year that Darius was emperor, on the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month (the month of Shebat), the Lord gave me a message in a vision at night. ^8 (A)I saw someone riding a red horse. He had stopped among some myrtle trees in a valley, and behind him were other horses—red, dappled, and white. ⁹ I asked him, “Sir, what do these horses mean?”

He answered, “I will show you what they mean.