10. The man who stood amongst the myrtle trees answered, “They are the ones the Lord has sent to go back and forth through the earth.”
11. They reported to the Lord’s angel who stood amongst the myrtle trees, and said, “We have walked back and forth through the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and in peace.”
12. Then the Lord’s angel replied, “O Lord of Hosts, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?”
13. The Lord answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.
14. So the angel who talked with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘the Lord of Hosts says: “I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
15. I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”
16. Therefore the Lord says: “I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it,” says the Lord of Hosts, “and a line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.”’
17. “Proclaim further, saying, ‘the Lord of Hosts says: “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the Lord will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem.”’”