Comfort for Jerusalem

12Then the angel of Yahweh answered and said, “O Yahweh of hosts, how long will you have no compassion on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have been angry these seventy years?”

13And Yahweh answered the angel who was speaking with me with good words, comforting words.

14Then the angel who was speaking with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts: I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion.’”

15And I am exceedingly angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was only a little angry, but they helped forward the disaster.

16Therefore, thus says the LORD: I have returned to Jerusalem with compassion; my house will be built in her, declares the LORD of hosts, and a measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.

17Call out again, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts: My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and Yahweh will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.’