9. And I said, “What are these, my lord?”Then the angel who was speaking with me said, “I will show you what these are.”
10. Then the man who was standing among the myrtle trees responded and said, “These are the ones whom the Lord has sent out to walk to and fro on the earth.”
11. They answered and said to the angel of the Lord who was standing among the myrtle trees, “We have gone to and fro on the earth, and all the earth is resting and peaceful.”
12. Then the angel of the Lord said, “How much longer, O Lord of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah with which You have been angry these seventy years?”
13. And the Lord answered the angel speaking to me with good and comforting words.
14. So the angel who spoke with me said, Cry out, saying: Thus says the Lord of Hosts: I have a great jealousy for Jerusalem and Zion.
15. And I have a great anger for those nations who are at ease, for while I was angry but a little, they helped to increase evil.
16. Therefore thus says the Lord: I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy, and My house will be built in it, says the Lord of Hosts, and a measuring line will be stretched over Jerusalem.
17. Cry out again, saying, Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Yet again My cities will overflow with goodness, and again the Lord will comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.
18. And I then lifted up my eyes, and I saw four horns.
19. And I said to the angel speaking to me, “What are these?”And he answered, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
20. Then the Lord showed me four craftsmen.