I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Zechariah 1:15 in context
Zechariah 1:12–18
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Then the LORD’s angel replied, “O LORD of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?”
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The LORD answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.
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So the angel who talked with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘The LORD of Armies says: “I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
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I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”
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Therefore the LORD says: “I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it,” says the LORD of Armies, “and a line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.”’
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“Proclaim further, saying, ‘The LORD of Armies says: “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem.”’”
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I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, four horns.
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