The second vision
1I raised my eyes and saw four horns. 2I asked the angel who spoke to me what these were, and he answered, “These horns are the nations that scattered Judah and Jerusalem.” 3Yahweh then showed me four blacksmiths, and I asked, “What are they coming to do?”
4He answered, “Here are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one dared raise his head. But these blacksmiths have come to strike down the power of the nations that scattered the people of Judah.”
The third vision
5Raising my eyes again, I saw a man with a measuring line in his hand. I asked, “Where are you going?” 6He answered, “I’m going to measure Jerusalem, to find its width and its length.” 7As the angel who spoke to me came forward, another angel met him 8and said, “Run and tell this to that young man: ‘Jerusalem will remain unwalled because of its multitude of people and live stock.’ 9For this is the word of Yahweh: I myself will be around her like a wall of fire, and also within her in Glory.” 10“Come, come! Flee from the land of the north,” says Yahweh to all those whom he scattered to the four winds of heaven. 11“Come, escape O Zion, you who dwell in Babylon.” 12For thus Yahweh Sabaoth says, after his Glory sent me to condemn the nations that have plundered you, “Who ever touches you touches the apple of my eye. 13Look, I will raise my hand against those nations, and they will be plundered by their slaves.” Thus you will know that Yahweh Sabaoth has sent me.
A call to the daughter of Zion
14“Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for I am about to come, I shall dwell among you,” says Yahweh.
15“On that day, many nations will join Yahweh and be my people, but my dwelling is among you.” 16The people of Judah will be for Yahweh as his portion in his holy land. He will choose Jerusalem again. 17Keep still in Yahweh’s presence, for he comes, having risen from his holy dwelling.”
