1. I raised my eyes and looked and there were four horns.
2. Then I asked the angel who spoke with me, “What are those?” He answered, “Those are the horns that scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
3. Then the Lord showed me four workmen.
4. And I said, “What are these coming to do?” And the Lord said, “Those are the horns that scattered Judah, so that none could raise their heads any more; and these have come to terrify them—to cut down the horns of the nations that raised their horns to scatter the land of Judah.”
5. I raised my eyes and looked, and there was a man with a measuring cord in his hand.
6. I asked, “Where are you going?” And he said, “To measure Jerusalem—to see how great its width is and how great its length.”
7. Then the angel who spoke with me advanced as another angel came out to meet him