I asked him, "Sir, what do these horses mean?" He answered, "I will show you what they mean.

The LORD answered the angel with comforting words,

and the angel told me to proclaim what the LORD Almighty had said: "I have a deep love and concern for Jerusalem, my holy city,

I asked the angel that had been speaking to me, "What do these horns mean?" He answered, "They stand for the world powers that have scattered the people of Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem."

The angel who had been speaking to me came again and roused me as if I had been sleeping.

"Don't you know?" he asked me. "No, I don't, sir," I replied.

The angel appeared again and said, "Look! Something else is coming!"

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.

The LORD sent them to go and inspect the earth."

They reported to the angel: "We have been all over the world and have found that the whole world lies helpless and subdued."