1  ✡ 1:1: Ezra 4:24–5:1; 6:14In Novemba, wen da Persia king Darius stay king two year awready, get one message from Da One In Charge. Az fo me, Zekariah, da guy dat talk fo Da One In Charge. (Me, Berekiah boy an Iddo grankid.) Da One In Charge tell dis:

2 “Me, Da One In Charge, I wen stay real huhu wit you guys ancesta guys. 3 Now, you gotta tell da peopo dis:

“ ‘Me, Da One In Charge, Da God Ova All Da Armies, tell dis: Go come back by me, an I goin come back by you guys!’ Dass wat Da One In Charge, Da God Ova All Da Armies, tell! 4 No make jalike yoa ancesta guys! Da guys dat wen talk fo me befo time wen tell dem: ‘Dis wat Da One In Charge, Da God Ova All Da Armies, tell: “Turn aroun from da bad kine stuff you guys stay do.” But dey neva lissen me.’ Dass da message from Da One In Charge.”

5 “Yoa ancesta guys—wea dey stay now?! Da guys dat wen talk befo time fo me, Da One In Charge—you guys tink dey stay alive foeva, o wat?!

6 “But long ago, get plenny stuff I wen tell da guys dat wen talk fo me. Get plenny rules dat I wen give dose guys dat work fo me an talk fo me. I tell um all dat, fo dem pass um on to yoa ancesta guys fo dem know wat dey gotta do. An da tings I tell um, dey not jus fo yoa ancestas! My rules wen stay fo dem, an dey still stay true!”

Den da peopo wen come sorry. Dey change how dey tink. Dey tell, “Da One In Charge, Da God Ova All Da Armies, he punish us guys fo tings we wen do, an befo time he wen make up his mind he goin do dat.”

7 February 15, wen Darius stay king two year, get anodda message from Da One In Charge fo me, Zekariah, da guy dat talk fo Da One In Charge. (Me, Berekiah boy, an Iddo grankid.)

8  ✡ 1:8 a: JShow 6:4; b: JShow 6:2Dis how was: Nite time, I see someting jalike one dream. I see in front me one angel on top one red horse. He stay stan inside one low place wea get some myrtle trees. In back a him stay odda angel guys on top red, brown, an white horses.

9 I aks, “Boss, wat dis mean?”

One angel messenja guy stay talk wit me. He tell, “I goin show you bout da guys on top da horses.”

10 Den da firs angel, da one dat stay stan wea da myrtle trees stay, he tell, “Dey da ones dat Da One In Charge wen sen out fo go all ova da world.”

11 Da guy dat stay stan wea da myrtle trees stay, he one angel guy from Da One In Charge too. Da guys on top da odda horses tell um, “Us guys wen go all ova da world. We find dat all da peopo inside da world stay res an stay quiet.”

12 Den da firs angel guy from Da One In Charge dat I talk to pray lidis: “You Da One In Charge, Da God Ova All Da Armies. Seventy year awready you stay real huhu wit da Jerusalem peopo. So, how long you no goin show pity fo dem, an fo da peopo inside da odda Judah towns?” 13 Da One In Charge give good kine words to da angel guy dat stay talk wit me. God tell him stuff fo make da angel feel good inside.

14 Den da angel guy dat stay talk wit me tell, “Talk loud! Tell erybody wat Da One In Charge, Da God Ova All Da Armies, tell: ‘I stay real jealous bout da peopo in Jerusalem an on top Mount Zion. 15 But I stay real huhu wit da odda peopos dat tink notting bad goin happen to dem. Befo time I stay ony litto bit huhu, but dose guys wen make mo worse tings happen to my peopo.’

16 “Az why, dis wat Da One In Charge, Da God Ova All Da Armies, tell, ‘Now I goin go back Jerusalem side an show pity fo da peopo dea. Dey goin build my house ova dea one mo time. An da construction guys goin start fo build up Jerusalem one mo time.’

17 “Go tell dis too: Me, Da One In Charge, Da God Ova All Da Armies, tell: ‘Eryting goin come good fo da peopo inside my towns one mo time. I goin pick Jerusalem an make my peopo on top Mount Zion feel good inside one mo time!’ ”

18 Den I look up. An dea in front me get four animal horns. 19 So I aks da angel guy dat stay talk to me, “Wat dese horns mean?”

He tell me, “Dese da nations dat wen make da Judah peopo, da Israel peopo, an da Jerusalem peopo scatta all ova.”

20 Den Da One In Charge show me four guys dat know how fo make stuff real good. 21 I aks, “Wat dese guys come hea fo do?”

He tell, “Da horns, dey da nations wen make da Judah peopo scatta all ova. Dey no let nobody even lif up dea head. Dese guys stay come fo make dose nations come sked! Dey goin throw down da nations dat wen lif up dea powa agains da Judah land, fo make dea peopo scatta all ova.”