Bible verse
“What are these, my lord?” I asked. And the angel who was speaking with me replied, “I will show you what they are.”
Zechariah 1:9 · BSB
The verses around it, from Zechariah 1.
5 Where are your fathers now? And the prophets, do they live forever?
6 But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”
7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo.
8 I looked out into the night and saw a man riding on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in the hollow, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.
9 “What are these, my lord?” I asked. And the angel who was speaking with me replied, “I will show you what they are.”
10 Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, “They are the ones the LORD has sent to patrol the earth.”
11 And the riders answered the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees, “We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and tranquil.”
12 Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?”
13 So the LORD spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who was speaking with me.
KJV
Then said I, O my lord, what [are] these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these [be].
ASV
Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will show thee what these are.
ERV
Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be.
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