11. And they answered the angel of the Lord, who was standing among the myrtle trees: “We have been patrolling the earth, and now the whole earth rests quietly.”
12. Then the angel of the Lord replied, “Lord of hosts, how long will you be without mercy for Jerusalem and the cities of Judah that have felt your anger these seventy years?”
13. To the angel who spoke with me, the Lord replied favorably, with comforting words.
14. The angel who spoke with me then said to me, Proclaim: Thus says the Lord of hosts:I am jealous for Jerusalemand for Zion intensely jealous.
15. I am consumed with angertoward the complacent nations;When I was only a little angry,they compounded the disaster.
16. Therefore, thus says the Lord:I return to Jerusalem in mercy;my house will be rebuilt there—oracle of the Lord of hosts—and a measuring line will be stretched over Jerusalem.
17. Proclaim further: Thus says the Lord of hosts:My cities will again overflow with prosperity;the Lord will again comfort Zion,and will again choose Jerusalem.