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Zechariah 2
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Chapter 2
Second vision: the horns and the smiths
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Then, raising my eyes, I saw a vision. It was this: there were four horns.
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I said to the angel who was talking to me, ‘What are these horns, my lord?’ He said to me, ‘These are the horns which have scattered Judah (Israel) and Jerusalem’.
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Yahweh then showed me four smiths.
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And I said, ‘What are these coming to do?’ He said to me, ‘(Those are the horns which have so scattered Judah that no one has dared to raise his head; but) these have come to lay them low (to strike down the horns of the nations who lifted their hands against the land of Judah, in order to scatter it)’.
Third vision: the measurer
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Then, raising my eyes, I saw a vision. It was this: there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.
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I asked him, ‘Where are you going?’ He said, ‘To measure Jerusalem, to find out her breadth and her length’.
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and then, while the angel who was talking to me stood still, another angel came forward to meet him.
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He said to him, ‘Run, and tell that young man this, “Jerusalem is to remain unwalled, because of the great number of men and cattle there will be in her.
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But I – it is Yahweh who speaks – I will be a wall of fire for her all round her, and I will be her glory in the midst of her.”‘
Two exhortations to the exiles
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Up, up, and leave the land of the North (it is Yahweh who speaks)!(For to the four winds of heaven I have scattered you – it is Yahweh who speaks.)
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Zion, up! Dweller in Babylon, flee!
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For Yahweh Sabaoth says this (he whose glory has sent me here) as regards the nations who despoiled you (for whoever touches you touches the apple of my eye):
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See now, I raise my hand over them, for them to be plunder for their slaves. (And you will know that Yahweh Sabaoth has sent me.)
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Sing, rejoice, daughter of Zion; for I am coming to dwell in the middle of you – it is Yahweh who speaks.
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Many nations will join Yahweh, on that day; they will become his people. (But he will remain among you, and you will know that Yahweh Sabaoth has sent me to you.)
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But Yahweh will hold Judah as his portion in the Holy Land, and again make Jerusalem his very own.
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Let all mankind be silent before Yahweh! For he is awaking and is coming from his holy dwelling.
Chapters of Zechariah
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