Zechariah 1:8-12

During the night I saw a man sitting on a red horse that stood among some myrtle trees in a narrow valley. Behind him were red, brown, and white horses with their riders.

I asked him, “My lord, what are these?” The angel I was talking to replied, “I will show you.”

The man who was there among the myrtle trees said, “These are the ones the Lord has sent out to patrol the earth.”

The riders reported to the angel of the Lord who was among the myrtle trees, “We have been patrolling the earth and saw that the whole earth has been pacified.”

Then the angel of the Lord said, “Lord Almighty, how long will it be before you have mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah which you have been angry with for the past seventy years?”