[2:1] I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand. [2:2] Then I asked, "Where are you going?"
He said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth and what is its length."
[2:3] Behold, the angel who talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him, [2:4] and said to him, "Run, speak to this young man, saying, 'Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it. [2:5] For I,' says Yahweh, 'will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the midst of her. [2:6] Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,' says Yahweh; 'for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,' says Yahweh. [2:7] 'Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.' [2:8] For thus says Yahweh of Armies: 'For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye. [2:9] For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a spoil to those who served them; and you will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me. [2:10] Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of you,' says Yahweh. [2:11] Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you. [2:12] Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem. [2:13] Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!"
[3:1] He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of Yahweh, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary. [3:2] Yahweh said to Satan, "Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn't this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?"
[3:3] Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel. [3:4] He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, "Take the filthy garments off of him." To him he said, "Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich clothing."
[3:5] I said, "Let them set a clean turban on his head."
So they set a clean turban on his head, and clothed him; and the angel of Yahweh was standing by. [3:6] The angel of Yahweh protested to Joshua, saying, [3:7] "Thus says Yahweh of Armies: 'If you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by. [3:8] Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men who are a sign: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant, the Branch. [3:9] For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave its engraving,' says Yahweh of Armies, 'and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day. [3:10] In that day,' says Yahweh of Armies, 'you will invite every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.'"
[4:1] The angel who talked with me came again, and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep. [4:2] He said to me, "What do you see?"
I said, "I have seen, and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are on the top of it; [4:3] and two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl, and the other on the left side of it."
[4:4] I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, "What are these, my lord?"