I asked, “What are these, my lord?” The angel who was talking to me replied, “I will show you what they are.”

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

I asked, “What are they coming to do?” He replied, “These are the horns that scattered Judah so no one could raise his head. These craftsmen have come to terrify them, to cut off the horns of the nations that raised their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.”

I asked, “Where are you going?” He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem to determine its width and length.”

He asked me, “What do you see?” I replied, “I see a solid gold lampstand there with a bowl on its top. It has seven lamps on it and seven channels for each of the lamps on its top.

Then I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these, my lord?”

I asked him, “What are the two olive trees on the right and left of the lampstand?”

“What do you see?” he asked me. “I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “30 feet long and 15 feet wide.”

So I asked, “What is it?” He responded, “It’s a measuring basket that is approaching.” And he continued, “This is their iniquity in all the land.”

So I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “Where are they taking the basket?”

by asking the priests who were at the house of the Lord of Hosts as well as the prophets, “Should we mourn and fast in the fifth month as we have done these many years?”

“Ask all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh months for these 70 years, did you really fast for Me?

The Lord Restores His People

Ask the Lord for rain in the season of spring rain. The Lord makes the rain clouds, and He will give them showers of rain and crops in the field for everyone.

If someone asks him: What are these wounds on your chest?—then he will answer: I received the wounds in the house of my friends.