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2:1  Then I looked up and saw four horns.
2:2  I asked the angel who was speaking to me, “What are these?” He answered, “These are the horns that scattered Y’hudah, Isra’el and Yerushalayim.”
2:3  Next, Adonai showed me four artisans.
2:4  I asked, “What are these coming to do?” He said, “Those horns that scattered Y’hudah so completely that no one could even raise his head — well, these men have come to terrify them, to overthrow the nations that raised their horns against the land of Y’hudah to scatter it.”
2:5  I looked up and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.
2:6  I asked, “Where are you going?” He said to me, “To measure Yerushalayim, to determine its width and length.”
2:7  Here the angel who was speaking to me went forward, and another angel went out, met him
2:8  and said to him, “Run and tell this young man, ‘Yerushalayim will be inhabited without walls, because there will be so many people and animals;
2:9  “for,” says Adonai, “I will be for her a wall of fire surrounding her; and I will be the glory within her.
2:10  Up!” says Adonai, “Move! Flee the land of the north! For I scattered you like the four winds of the sky,” says Adonai.
2:11  “Move, Tziyon! You who are living with the daughter of Bavel, escape!”
2:12  For Adonai-Tzva’ot has sent me on a glorious mission to the nations that plundered you, and this is what he says: “Anyone who injures you injures the very pupil of my eye.
2:13  But I will shake my hand over them, and they will be plundered by those who were formerly their slaves.” Then you will know that Adonai-Tzva’ot sent me.