Then I spoke and said to the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these, my lord?”

And the angel who was speaking to me went out, and he said to me, "{Please look up}! See what this [is] going out."

And I answer and speak unto the messenger who is speaking with me, saying, 'What are these, my lord?'

So the LORD answered the angel who was speaking to me with kind and comforting words.

Then the angel who was speaking to me told me, "Announce this: "This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "I have a deep concern for Jerusalem, a great concern for Zion.

Then the angel who had been speaking with me returned and woke me up as if I had been asleep.

The angel who had been speaking with me answered by asking, "You don't know what these mean, do you?" So I responded, "No, sir."

"This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "In the future, ten men speaking all the languages of the nations will grab hold of one Jewish person by the hem of his garment and say, "Let us go up to Jerusalem with you, because we heard that God is with you."'"

It will also come about that if any man would dare to prophesy, then his father and his mother who bore him will respond to him, "You will not live, because you are speaking lies in the name of the LORD.' Then his father and mother who bore him will stab him for prophesying.

Then I said, “My lord, what are these?” And the angel who was speaking with me said to me, “I will show you what these are.”

So I said to the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these?” And he answered me, “These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem.”

And behold, the angel who was speaking with me was going out, and another angel was coming out to meet him,

I said to the angel who was speaking with me, “Where are they taking the ephah?”

speaking to the priests who belong to the house of the Lord of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, “Shall I weep in the fifth month and abstain, as I have done these many years?”