Zechariah 2
1 I lifted my eyes and looked: there were four horns.
2 I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these?” He answered me, “These are the horns that scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
3 Then the LORD showed me four blacksmiths.
4 I asked, “What are these coming to do?” He answered, “Those are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one could lift his head; these have come to terrify them and to knock down the horns of the nations that raised their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.”
5 I lifted my eyes and looked: there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.
6 I asked, “Where are you going?” He answered me, “I am going to measure Jerusalem, to see how wide it is and how long it is.”
7 The angel who was speaking with me went out, and another angel came to meet him.
8 He said to him, “Run and tell that young man: ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited like an unwalled city, because of the great number of people and animals in it.
9 And I will be for her,” declares the LORD, “a wall of fire all around, and I will be the glory within her.’”
10 “Hey! Hey! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the LORD, “for I have scattered you like the four winds of heaven,” declares the LORD.
11 “Hey, Zion! Escape, you who live with the daughter of Babylon.”
12 For this is what the LORD of Armies says: “After the glory, he sent me to the nations that plundered you; whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye.”
13 “Look, I am about to raise my hand against them, and they will become plunder for their own slaves. Then you will know that the LORD of Armies has sent me.”
14 “Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion, for I am coming and will live among you,” declares the LORD.
15 “Many nations will join themselves to the LORD on that day and become my people. I will live among you, and you will know that the LORD of Armies has sent me to you.”
16 The LORD will take Judah as his portion in the holy land, and he will again choose Jerusalem.
17 Be silent before the LORD, all humanity, for he has risen from his holy dwelling.”
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