(2:5) I looked again, and there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.

Then a round lead cover was raised up, revealing a woman sitting inside the basket.

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Look! Your king is coming to you: he is legitimate and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey – on a young donkey, the foal of a female donkey.

Instead he will say, ‘I am no prophet – indeed, I am a farmer, for a man has made me his indentured servant since my youth.’

Then I turned to look, and there was a flying scroll!

Again the Lord said to me, “Take up once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

I was attentive that night and saw a man seated on a red horse that stood among some myrtle trees in the ravine. Behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.

A mongrel people will live in Ashdod, for I will greatly humiliate the Philistines.

Then I spoke up, “Let a clean turban be put on his head.” So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him, while the angel of the Lord stood nearby.

And it will come about that just as you (both Judah and Israel) were a curse to the nations, so I will save you and you will be a blessing. Do not be afraid! Instead, be strong!’

Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets!

I will take away their abominable religious practices; then those who survive will become a community of believers in our God, like a clan in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.

He asked me, “What do you see?” I replied, “I see a menorah of pure gold with a receptacle at the top and seven lamps, with fourteen pipes going to the lamps.

A day of the Lord is about to come when your possessions will be divided as plunder in your midst.

“I will pour out on the kingship of David and the population of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication so that they will look to me, the one they have pierced. They will lament for him as one laments for an only son, and there will be a bitter cry for him like the bitter cry for a firstborn.

“In that day there will be a fountain opened up for the dynasty of David and the people of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and impurity.

The angelic messenger who had been speaking with me then returned and woke me, as a person is wakened from sleep.

But I (the Lord says) will be a wall of fire surrounding Jerusalem and the source of glory in her midst.’”

Someone asked me, “What do you see?” I replied, “I see a flying scroll thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide.”

He replied, “To build a temple for her in the land of Babylonia. When it is finished, she will be placed there in her own residence.”