1 Then I looked up and saw four horns.
2 I asked the angel who was speaking to me, “What are these?” He answered, “These are the horns that scattered Y’hudah, Isra’el and Yerushalayim.”
3 Next,Adonaishowed me four artisans.
4 I asked, “What are these coming to do?” He said, “Those horns that scattered Y’hudah so completely that no one could even raise his head — well, these men have come to terrify them, to overthrow the nations that raised their horns against the land of Y’hudah to scatter it.”
5 I looked up and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.
6 I asked, “Where are you going?” He said to me, “To measure Yerushalayim, to determine its width and length.”
7 Here the angel who was speaking to me went forward, and another angel went out, met him
8 and said to him, “Run and tell this young man, ‘Yerushalayim will be inhabited without walls, because there will be so many people and animals;
9 “for,” saysAdonai, “I will be for her a wall of fire surrounding her; and I will be the glory within her.
10 Up!” saysAdonai, “Move! Flee the land of the north! For I scattered you like the four winds of the sky,” saysAdonai.
11 “Move, Tziyon! You who are living with the daughter of Bavel, escape!”
12 ForAdonai-Tzva’othas sent me on a glorious mission to the nations that plundered you, and this is what he says: “Anyone who injures you injures the very pupil of my eye.
13 But I will shake my hand over them, and they will be plundered by those who were formerly their slaves.” Then you will know thatAdonai-Tzva’otsent me.
14 “Sing, daughter of Tziyon; rejoice! For, here, I am coming; and I will live among you,” saysAdonai.
15 When that time comes, many nations will join themselves toAdonai. “They will be my people, and I will live among you.” Then you will know that it wasAdonai-Tzva’otwho sent me to you.
16 Adonaiwill take possession of Y’hudah as his portion in the holy land, and he will again make Yerushalayim his choice.
17 Be silent, all humanity, beforeAdonai; for he has been roused from his holy dwelling.’”