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.”’”
18. I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four horns.
19. I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these?”He answered me, “These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
20. The Lord showed me four craftsmen.
21. Then I asked, “What are these coming to do?”He said, “These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”