²⁵ While I was talking to her, behold, her face suddenly shone exceedingly, and her countenance flashed like lightning, so that I was too frightened to approach her, and my heart was terrified. While^[a] I was wondering what this meant, ²⁶ behold, she suddenly uttered a loud and fearful cry, so that the earth shook at the sound. ²⁷ And I looked, and behold, the woman was no longer visible to me, but there was an established city,^[b] and a place of huge foundations showed itself. Then I was afraid, and cried with a loud voice and said, ²⁸ “Where is the angel U′riel, who came to me at first? For it was he who brought me into this overpowering bewilderment; my end has become corruption, and my prayer a reproach.”

⁴⁴ This woman whom you saw, whom you now behold as an established city, is Zion.^[a]