Holy Scripture

Zechariah 2:4

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 4 and following) And behold, the angel who spoke to me went out, and another angel went out to meet him, and said to him: Run, speak to this young man, saying: Jerusalem shall be inhabited without walls, because of the multitude of people and animals in its midst. And I will be to it, says the Lord, a wall of f…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Zechariah

Source: Septuagint

Original

4And I said, What are these coming to do? And he said, These are the horns that scattered Judah, and they broke Israel in pieces, and none of them lifted up his head: and these are come forth to sharpen them for their hands, even the four horns, the nations that lifted up the horn against the land of the Lord to scatter it.

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In context

2And I said to the angel that spoke with me, What are these things, my lord? And he said to me, These are the horns that have scattered Judah, and Israel, and Jerusalem.

3And the Lord showed me four artificers.

— Zechariah 2:4 —

5And I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a man, and in his hand a measuring line.

6And I said to him, Whither goest thou? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth of it, and what is the length of it.

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