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Zechariah 1
¹⁹ “What are these?” I asked the angel who was talking with me. He replied, “These horns represent the nations that scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
²⁰ Then the LORD showed me four blacksmiths.
²¹ “What are these men coming to do?” I asked. The angel replied, “These four horns—these nations—scattered and humbled Judah. Now these blacksmiths have come to terrify those nations and throw them down and destroy them.”
Zechariah 2
¹ When I looked again, I saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.
² “Where are you going?” I asked. He replied, “I am going to measure Jerusalem, to see how wide and how long it is.”
³ Then the angel who was with me went to meet a second angel who was coming toward him.
⁴ The other angel said, “Hurry, and say to that young man, ‘Jerusalem will someday be so full of people and livestock that there won’t be room enough for everyone! Many will live outside the city walls.
⁵ Then I, myself, will be a protective wall of fire around Jerusalem, says the LORD. And I will be the glory inside the city!’”
⁶ The LORD says, “Come away! Flee from Babylon in the land of the north, for I have scattered you to the four winds.
⁷ Come away, people of Zion, you who are exiled in Babylon!”
⁸ After a period of glory, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies sent me against the nations who plundered you. For he said, “Anyone who harms you harms my most precious possession.