¹فرفعت عينيّ ونظرت واذا رجل وبيده حبل قياس.

¹I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.

²فقلت الى اين انت ذاهب. فقال لي لاقيس اورشليم لارى كم عرضها وكم طولها.

²Then I asked, “Where are you going?” He said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth and what is its length.”

³واذا بالملاك الذي كلمني قد خرج وخرج ملاك آخر للقائه.

³Behold, the angel who talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,

⁴فقال له اجر وكلم هذا الغلام قائلا. كالاعراء تسكن اورشليم من كثرة الناس والبهائم فيها.

⁴and said to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it.

⁵وانا يقول الرب اكون لها سور نار من حولها واكون مجدا في وسطها

⁵For I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.

⁶يا يا اهربوا من ارض الشمال يقول الرب. فاني قد فرقتكم كرياح السماء الاربع يقول الرب.

⁶Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,’ says Yahweh; ‘for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,’ says Yahweh.

⁷تنجّي يا صهيون الساكنة في بنت بابل.

⁷‘Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.’

⁸لانه هكذا قال رب الجنود. بعد المجد ارسلني الى الامم الذين سلبوكم لانه من يمسكم يمسّ حدقة عينه.

⁸For thus says Yahweh of Armies: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

⁹لاني هانذا احرّك يدي عليهم فيكونون سلبا لعبيدهم. فتعلمون ان رب الجنود قد ارسلني

⁹For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a spoil to those who served them; and you will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me.

¹⁰ترنمي وافرحي يا بنت صهيون لاني هانذا آتي واسكن في وسطك يقول الرب.

¹⁰Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of you,’ says Yahweh.

¹¹فيتصل امم كثيرة بالرب في ذلك اليوم ويكونون لي شعبا فاسكن في وسطك فتعلمين ان رب الجنود قد ارسلني اليك.

¹¹Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.

¹²والرب يرث يهوذا نصيبه في الارض المقدسه ويختار اورشليم بعد.

¹²Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.

¹³اسكتوا يا كل البشر قدام الرب لانه قد استيقظ من مسكن قدسه

¹³Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”