9I asked, "What are these, my lord?" The angel who was talking with me answered, "I will show you what they are."


In Context

6 But did not my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, overtake your forefathers? "Then they repented and said, 'The Lord Almighty has done to us what our ways and practices deserve, just as he determined to do.' " The Man Among the Myrtle Trees

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 Berekiah, the son of Iddo.

8 During the night I had a vision-and there before me was a man riding a red horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in a ravine. Behind him were red, brown and white horses.

9 I asked, "What are these, my lord?" The angel who was talking with me answered, "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 go throughout the earth."

11 And they reported to the angel of the Lord , who was standing among the myrtle trees, "We have gone throughout the earth and found the whole world at rest and in peace."

Zechariah 1:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:9Then 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. ]

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:9And I said, My lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these are.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:9And I said: What are these, my Lord ? and the angel that spoke in me, said to me: I will shew thee what these are:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:9Then 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:9Then 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:9Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said to me, I will show thee what these are.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:9Then I asked, 'My lord, what are these?'| The angel who talked with me said to me, |I will show you what these are.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:9And I say, 'What are these, my lord?' And the messenger who is speaking with me saith unto me, 'I — I do shew thee what these are.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:9Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said to me, I will show you what these be.