1. On the fourth day of the ninth month, in the fourth year of the reign of King Darius, God’s Message again came to Zechariah.
11-13. “But did your ancestors listen? No, they set their jaws in defiance. They shut their ears. They steeled themselves against God’s revelation and the Spirit-filled sermons preached by the earlier prophets by order of God-of-the-Angel-Armies. And God became angry, really angry, because he told them everything plainly and they wouldn’t listen to a word he said.