Zechariah 2
- 1And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
- 2And I said unto the angel that spoke with me: 'What are these?' And he said unto me: 'These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.'
- 3And the LORD showed me four craftsmen.
- 4Then said I: 'What come these to do?' And he spoke, saying: 'These--the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head--these then are come to frighten them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn agains(possibly incomplete in the source)
- 5And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
- 6Then said I: 'Whither goest thou?' And he said unto me: 'To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.'
- 7And, behold, the angel that spoke with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,
- 8and said unto him: 'Run, speak to this young man, saying: 'Jerusalem shall be inhabited without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein.
- 9For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.
- 10Ho, ho, flee then from the land of the north, saith the LORD; for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.
- 11Ho, Zion, escape, thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.'
- 12For thus saith the LORD of hosts who sent me after glory unto the nations which spoiled you: 'Surely, he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
- 13For, behold, I will shake My hand over them, and they shall be a spoil to those that served them'; and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me.
- 14'Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion; for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.
- 15And many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be My people, and I will dwell in the midst of thee'; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee.
- 16And the LORD shall inherit Judah as His portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.
- 17Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD; for He is aroused out of His holy habitation.
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