Zechariah 1 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ And I said: What are these, my Lord ? and the angel that spoke in me, said to me: I will shew thee what these are:

² 0 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered, and said: These are they, whom the Lord hath sent to walk through the earth.

³ 1 And they answered the angel of the Lord, that stood among the myrtle trees, and said: We have walked through the earth, and behold all the earth is inhabited, and is at rest.

⁴ 2 And the angel of the Lord answered, and said: O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem, and on the cities of Juda, with which thou hast been angry? this is now the seventieth year.

⁵ 3 And the Lord answered the angel, that spoke in me, good words, comfortable words.

⁶ 4 And the angel that spoke in me, said to me: Cry thou, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I am zealous for Jerusalem, and Sion with a great zeal.

⁷ 5 And I am angry with a great anger with the wealthy nations: for I was angry a little, but they helped forward the evil.

⁸ 6 Therefore thus saith the Lord: I will return to Jerusalem in mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the Lord of hosts: and the building line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.

⁹ 7 Cry yet, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: My cities shall yet flow with good things : and the Lord will yet comfort Sion, and he will yet choose Jerusalem.

¹⁰ 8 And I lifted up my eyes, and saw: and behold four horns.

¹¹ 9 And I said to the angel that spoke to me: What are these? And he said to me: These are the horns that have scattered Juda, and Israel, and Jerusalem.

¹² 0 And the Lord shewed me four smiths.

¹³ 1 And I said: What come these to do? and he spoke, saying: These are the horns which have scattered Juda every man apart, and none of them lifted up his head: and these are come to fray them, to cast down the horns of the nations, that have lifted up the horn upon the land of Juda to scatter it.

¹⁴ And I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold a man, with a measuring line in his hand.

¹⁵ And I said: Whither goest thou? and he said to me: To measure Jerusalem, and to see how great is the breadth thereof, and how great the length thereof.

¹⁶ And behold the angel that spoke in me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him.

¹⁷ And he said to him: Run, speak to this young man, saying: Jerusalem shall be inhabited without walls, by reason of the multitude of men, and of the beasts in the midst thereof.

¹⁸ And I will be to it, saith the Lord, a wall of fire round about: and I will be in glory in the midst thereof.

¹⁹ O, O flee ye out of the land of the north, saith the Lord, for I have scattered you into the four winds of heaven, saith the Lord.

²⁰ O Sion, flee, thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon:

²¹ For thus saith the Lord of hosts: After the glory he hath sent me to the nations that have robbed you: for he that toucheth you, toucheth the apple of my eye: