Adonai answered the angel who was speaking to me with pleasant, comforting words.
For thus says Adonai: “After 70 years for Babylon are complete, I will visit you, and fulfill My good word toward you—to bring you back to this place.
“Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, “The fast of the fourth, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth month will become joy, gladness and cheerful moadim. Therefore, love truth and shalom!’
Then the angel who had been speaking with me returned and woke me—like a man who is wakened from his sleep.
Then I asked, ‘What are these, my lord?’ Now the angel speaking with me said to me, ‘I will show you what these are.’
I have seen his ways, but I will heal him. I will lead him and restore comfort to him and his mourners.
One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long until the end of the wondrous things?”