⁹ I asked, “What are these, my lord?”

The angel^(A) who was talking with me answered, “I will show you what they are.”^(B)

¹³ So the Lord spoke^(A) kind and comforting words^(B) to the angel who talked with me.^(C)

¹⁴ Then the angel who was speaking to me said, “Proclaim this word: This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I am very jealous^(A) for Jerusalem and Zion,

¹⁹ I asked the angel who was speaking to me, “What are these?”

He answered me, “These are the horns^(A) that scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem.”

⁵³ you who have received the law that was given through angels^(A) but have not obeyed it.”

¹⁹ Why, then, was the law given at all? It was added because of transgressions^(A) until the Seed^(B) to whom the promise referred had come. The law was given through angels^(C) and entrusted to a mediator.^(D)

² For since the message spoken^(A) through angels^(B) was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment,^(C)