1 Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and hinei four keranot (horns, powers)![a]2 And I said unto the malach that spoke with me, What are these? And he answered me, These are the keranot which have scattered Yehudah, Yisroel, and Yerushalayim.
3 And Hashem showed me arba'ah charashim (four craftsmen). 4 Then said I, What come these to do? And he spoke, saying, These are the keranot which have scattered Yehudah, so that no man did lift up his head; but these [craftsmen] are come to terrify them, to throw down the karnot haGoyim, which lifted up their keren (horn) over Eretz Yehudah to scatter her.
5 I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and, hinei, a man with a measuring line in his hand! 6 Then said I: Whither goest thou? And he said unto me: To measure Yerushalayim, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof. 7 And, hinei, the malach that spoke with me went forth, and another malach went out to meet him, 8 And said unto him: Run, speak to this na'ar (young man)[b] saying:
Yerushalayim shall be inhabited like unwalled cities
because of the multitude of men and cattle therein;
9 For I, saith Hashem,
will be unto her a chomat eish (wall of fire) round about,
and will be the kavod in the midst of her.
10 Come, come, and flee
out of the Eretz Tzafon, saith Hashem;
for I have scattered you
like the Arbah Ruchot HaShomayim, saith Hashem.
11 Come, save thyself, O Tziyon,
thou that dwellest with the Bat Bavel.
12 For thus saith Hashem Tzva'os:
After Kavod (Glory) sent me
unto the Goyim who plundered you —
the one that toucheth you
toucheth the apple of His eye —
13 Hineni, I will surely raise Mine hand against them,
and they shall be plunder to their avadim;
and ye shall know that Hashem Tzva'os hath sent me.
14 Sing and rejoice, O Bat Tziyon;
for, hineni, I will come,
and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith Hashem.
15 And Goyim rabbim shall be joined to Hashem in Yom HaHu (that day),
and shall be Ami (My People):
and I will dwell in the midst of thee,
and thou shalt know that Hashem Tzva'os hath sent me unto thee.
