8 “I looked at night and saw a man riding on a red horse, and he was standing among the myrtle trees in the shade. And behind him were horses: red, sorrel, and white.”
9 And I said, “My master, what are these?” And the messenger who was speaking to me said to me, “Let me show you what they are.”
10 And the man who stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, “They are the ones יהוה has sent to go throughout the earth.”
11 And they answered the messenger of יהוה, who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, “We have gone throughout the earth, and see, all the earth is at peace and rest.”
12 And the messenger of יהוה answered and said, “O יהוה of hosts, how long would You have no compassion on Yerushalayim and on the cities of Yehuḏah, against which You were enraged these seventy years?”
13 And יהוה answered the messenger who talked to me, good words, comforting words.
14 And the messenger who spoke with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘Thus said יהוה of hosts, “I have been jealous for Yerushalayim and for Tsiyon with great jealousy.