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2 (1) I looked up, and I saw four horns. (2) I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are those?” “Those,” he replied, “are the horns that tossed Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.” (3) Then GOD showed me four smiths. (4) “What are they coming to do?” I asked. The angel replied: “Those are the horns that tossed Judah, so that nobody at all 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.” (5) I looked up, and I saw a figure holding a measuring line. (6) “Where are you going?” I asked. “To measure Jerusalem,” he replied, “to see how long and wide it is to be.” (7) But the angel who talked with me came forward, and another angel came forward to meet him. (8) 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. (9) And I Myself—declares GOD—will be a wall of fire all around it, and I will be a glory inside it. (10) “Away, away! Flee from the land of the north—says GOD—though I swept you [there] like the four winds of heaven—declares GOD.” (11) Away, escape, O Zion, you who dwell in Fair Babylon! (12) 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. (13) 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. (14) Shout for joy, Fair Zion! For lo, I come; and I will dwell in your midst—declares GOD. (15) 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. (16) GOD
will claim Judah as a special portion in the Holy Land—and will choose Jerusalem once more. (17) Be silent, all flesh, before GOD!
For [God] is roused from the holy habitation.
3 (1) I was further shown Joshua, the high priest, standing before the angel of GOD, and the Accuser standing at his right to accuse him. (2) But [the angel of] GOD said to the Accuser, “GOD rebukes you, O Accuser; GOD who has chosen Jerusalem rebukes you! For this is a brand plucked from the fire.” (3) Now Joshua was clothed in filthy garments when he stood before the angel. (4) The latter spoke up and said to his attendants, “Take the filthy garments off him!” And he said to him, “See, I have removed your guilt from you, and you shall be clothed in [priestly] robes.” (5) Then he gave the order, “Let a pure diadem be placed on his head.” And they placed the pure diadem on his head and clothed him in [priestly] garments, as the angel of GOD stood by. (6) And the angel of GOD charged Joshua as follows: (7) “Thus said GOD of Hosts: If you walk in My paths and keep My charge, you in turn will rule My House and guard My courts, and I will permit you to move about among these attendants. (8) Hearken well, O High Priest Joshua, you and your fellow priests sitting before you! For those men are a sign that I am going to bring My servant the Branch. (9) For mark well this stone that I place before Joshua, a single stone with seven eyes. I will execute its engraving—declares GOD of Hosts—and I will remove that country’s guilt in a single day. (10) In that day—declares GOD of Hosts—you will be inviting each other to the shade of vines and fig trees.”
4 (1) The angel who talked with me came back and woke me as someone is wakened from sleep. (2) He said to me, “What do you see?” And I answered, “I see a lampstand all of gold, with a bowl above it. The lamps on it are seven in number, and the lamps above it have seven pipes; (3) and by it are two olive trees, one on the right of the bowl and one on its left.” (4) I, in turn, asked the angel who talked with me, “What do those things mean, my lord?” (5) “Do you not know what those things mean?” asked the angel who talked with me; and I said, “No, my lord.” (6) Then he explained to me as follows:
“This is the word of GOD to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by My spirit—said GOD of Hosts. (7) Whoever you are, O great mountain in the path of Zerubbabel, turn into level ground! For he shall produce that excellent stone; it shall be greeted with shouts of ‘Beautiful! Beautiful!’” (8) And the word of GOD came to me: (9) “Zerubbabel’s hands have founded this House and Zerubbabel’s hands shall complete it. Then you shall know that it was GOD of Hosts who sent me to you. (10) Does anyone scorn a day of small beginnings? When they see the stone of distinction in the hand of Zerubbabel, they shall rejoice.
“Those seven are the eyes of GOD, ranging over the whole earth.” (11) “And what,” I asked him, “are those two olive trees, one on the right and one on the left of the lampstand?” (12) And I further asked him, “What are the two tops of the olive trees that feed their gold through those two golden tubes?” (13) He asked me, “Don’t you know what they are?” And I replied, “No, my lord.” (14) Then he explained, “They are the two anointed dignitaries who attend the Sovereign of all the earth.”
Mishneh Torah, Prayer and the Priestly Blessing
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