Zechariah 2

va'essa et-enay va'ere vehinneh arba qeranot

I looked up, and I saw four horns.

va'omar el-hammalakh haddover bi mah-elleh vayyomer elay elleh haqqeranot asher zeru et-yehudah et-yisra'el virushalai͏m

I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are those?” “Those,” he replied, “are the horns that tossed Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”

vayyareni Adonai arba'ah kharashim

Then GOD showed me four smiths.

va'omar mah elleh va'im la'asot vayyomer lemor elleh haqqeranot asher-zeru et-yehudah kefi-ish lo-nasa rosho vayyavo'u elleh lehakharid otam leyaddot et-qarnot haggoyim hannose'im qeren el-erets yehudah lezarotah

“What are they coming to do?” I asked. The angel replied: “Those are the horns that tossed Judah, so that nobody could raise their head; and these [smiths] have come to throw them into a panic, to hew down the horns of the nations that raise a horn against the land of Judah, to toss it.”

va'essa enay va'ere vehinneh-ish uveyado khevel middah

I looked up, and I saw a figure holding a measuring line.

va'omar anah attah holekh vayyomer elay lamod et-yerushalai͏m lirot kammah-rokhbah vekhammah orkah

“Where are you going?” I asked. “To measure Jerusalem,” he replied, “to see how long and wide it is to be.”

vehinneh hammalakh haddover bi yotse umalakh akher yotse liqrato

But the angel who talked with me came forward, and another angel came forward to meet him.

vayyomer elav ruts dabber el-hanna'ar hallaz lemor perazot teshev yerushalai͏m merov adam uvehemah betokhah

The former said to him, “Run to that agent and tell him: “Jerusalem shall be peopled as a city without walls, so many shall be the people and cattle it contains.

va'ani ehyeh-llah ne'um-Adonai khomat esh saviv ulekhavod ehyeh vetokhah

And I Myself—declares GOD—will be a wall of fire all around it, and I will be a glory inside it.

hoy hoy venusu me'erets tsafon ne'um-Adonai ki ke'arba rukhot hashamayim perasti etkhem ne'um-Adonai

“Away, away! Flee from the land of the north—says GOD—though I swept you [there] like the four winds of heaven—declares GOD.”

hoy tsiyyon himmaleti yoshevet bat-bavel

Away, escape, O Zion, you who dwell in Fair Babylon!

ki khoh amar Adonai tseva'ot akhar kavod shelakhani el-haggoyim hasholelim etkhem ki hannogea bakhem nogea bevavat eno

For thus said GOD of Hosts—who sent me after glory—concerning the nations that have taken you as spoil: “Whoever touches you touches the pupil of their own eye.

ki hinni menif et-yadi alehem vehayu shalal le'avdehem vidatem ki-Adonai tseva'ot shelakhani

For I will lift My hand against them, and they shall be spoil for those they enslaved.”—Then you shall know that I was sent by GOD of Hosts.

ronni vesimkhi bat-tsiyyon ki hinni-va veshakhanti vetokhekh ne'um-Adonai

Shout for joy, Fair Zion! For lo, I come; and I will dwell in your midst—declares GOD.

venilvu goyim rabbim el-Adonai bayyom hahu vehayu li le'am veshakhanti vetokhekh veyada'at ki-Adonai tseva'ot shelakhani elayikh

In that day many nations will attach themselves to GOD and become God’s people, and God will dwell in your midst. Then you will know that I was sent to you by GOD of Hosts.

venakhal Adonai et-yehudah khelqo al admat haqqodesh uvakhar od birushalai͏m

GOD will claim Judah as a special portion in the Holy Land—and will choose Jerusalem once more.

has kol-basar mippene Adonai ki ne'or mimme'on qodsho

Be silent, all flesh, before GOD! For [God] is roused from the holy habitation.