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| 1 καὶ ἦρα τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς μου καὶ εἶδον καὶ ἰδοὺ ἀνὴρ καὶ ἐν τῇ χειρὶ αὐτοῦ σχοινίον γεωμετρικόν 2 καὶ εἶπα πρὸς αὐτόν ποῦ σὺ πορεύῃ καὶ εἶπεν πρός με διαμετρῆσαι τὴν Ιερουσαλημ τοῦ ἰδεῖν πηλίκον τὸ πλάτος αὐτῆς ἐστιν καὶ πηλίκον τὸ μῆκος 3 καὶ ἰδοὺ ὁ ἄγγελος ὁ λαλῶν ἐν ἐμοὶ εἱστήκει καὶ ἄγγελος ἕτερος ἐξεπορεύετο εἰς συνάντησιν αὐτῷ 4 καὶ εἶπεν πρὸς αὐτὸν λέγων δράμε καὶ λάλησον πρὸς τὸν νεανίαν ἐκεῖνον λέγων κατακάρπως κατοικηθήσεται Ιερουσαλημ ἀπὸ πλήθους ἀνθρώπων καὶ κτηνῶν ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῆς 5 καὶ ἐγὼ ἔσομαι αὐτῇ λέγει κύριος τεῖχος πυρὸς κυκλόθεν καὶ εἰς δόξαν ἔσομαι ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῆς | 1 When next I looked up, I saw a man there that carried a measuring-line; 2 so I asked him, whither he was bound? For Jerusalem, said he, to measure length and breadth of it. 3 And at that, my angel monitor would have gone out on his errand, but here was a second angel come out to meet him.[1] 4 Speed thee, said he, on thy way, and tell that pupil of thine:[2] So full Jerusalem shall be, of men and cattle both, wall it shall have none to hedge it in; 5 I myself, the Lord says, will be a wall of fire around it, and in the midst of it, the brightness of my presence. | 1 Et levavi oculos meos, et vidi, et ecce vir, et in manu ejus funiculus mensorum. 2 Et dixi: Quo tu vadis? Et dixit ad me: Ut metiar Jerusalem, et videam quanta sit latitudo ejus, et quanta longitudo ejus. 3 Et ecce angelus qui loquebatur in me egrediebatur, et angelus alius egrediebatur in occursum ejus: 4 et dixit ad eum: Curre, loquere ad puerum istum, dicens: Absque muro habitabitur Jerusalem, præ multitudine hominum et jumentorum in medio ejus. 5 Et ego ero ei, ait Dominus, murus ignis in circuitu, et in gloria ero in medio ejus. |
| 6 ὦ ὦ φεύγετε ἀπὸ γῆς βορρᾶ λέγει κύριος διότι ἐκ τῶν τεσσάρων ἀνέμων τοῦ οὐρανοῦ συνάξω ὑμᾶς λέγει κύριος 7 εἰς Σιων ἀνασῴζεσθε οἱ κατοικοῦντες θυγατέρα Βαβυλῶνος 8 διότι τάδε λέγει κύριος παντοκράτωρ ὀπίσω δόξης ἀπέσταλκέν με ἐπὶ τὰ ἔθνη τὰ σκυλεύσαντα ὑμᾶς διότι ὁ ἁπτόμενος ὑμῶν ὡς ἁπτόμενος τῆς κόρης τοῦ ὀφθαλμοῦ αὐτοῦ 9 διότι ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐπιφέρω τὴν χεῖρά μου ἐ{P'} αὐτούς καὶ ἔσονται σκῦλα τοῖς δουλεύουσιν αὐτοῖς καὶ γνώσεσθε διότι κύριος παντοκράτωρ ἀπέσταλκέν με | 6 Away, away, from the north country get you gone, the Lord says; what if I have scattered you, far as the four winds? 7 Away with thee, Sion; wouldst thou still make thy home with widowed Babylon? 8 This promise the Lord of hosts makes: After … … glory,[3] I hold his warrant against the nations that plunder you; apple of my eye[4] he touches, that touches you. 9 Lift I my hand, they shall be at your mercy that are your masters now; doubt shall be none it was the Lord who sent me. |
6 O, o, fugite de terra aquilonis, dicit Dominus, quoniam in quatuor ventos cæli dispersi vos, dicit Dominus. O Sion! fuge, quæ habitas apud filiam Babylonis: quia hæc dicit Dominus exercituum: Post gloriam misit me ad gentes quæ spoliaverunt vos: qui enim tetigerit vos, tangit pupillam oculi mei: quia ecce ego levo manum meam super eos, et erunt prædæ his qui serviebant sibi: et cognoscetis quia Dominus exercituum misit me. |
| 10 τέρπου καὶ εὐφραίνου θύγατερ Σιων διότι ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἔρχομαι καὶ κατασκηνώσω ἐν μέσῳ σου λέγει κύριος 11 καὶ καταφεύξονται ἔθνη πολλὰ ἐπὶ τὸν κύριον ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ καὶ ἔσονται αὐτῷ εἰς λαὸν καὶ κατασκηνώσουσιν ἐν μέσῳ σου καὶ ἐπιγνώσῃ ὅτι κύριος παντοκράτωρ ἐξαπέσταλκέν με πρὸς σέ 12 καὶ κατακληρονομήσει κύριος τὸν Ιουδαν τὴν μερίδα αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν τὴν ἁγίαν καὶ αἱρετιεῖ ἔτι τὴν Ιερουσαλημ | 10 Sion, poor maid, break out into songs of rejoicing; I am on my way, coming to dwell in the midst of thee, the Lord says. 11 There be nations a many that shall rally that day to the Lord’s side; they, too, shall be people of mine, but with thee shall be my dwelling. Doubt there shall be none it was the Lord of hosts sent me to thy aid.[5] 12 Juda the Lord shall claim for his own, his portion in a holy land; still Jerusalem shall be the city of his choice. |
10 Lauda et lætare, filia Sion, quia ecce ego venio, et habitabo in medio tui, ait Dominus. Et applicabuntur gentes multæ ad Dominum in die illa, et erunt mihi in populum, et habitabo in medio tui: et scies quia Dominus exercituum misit me ad te. Et possidebit Dominus Judam partem suam in terra sanctificata, et eliget adhuc Jerusalem. |
| 13 εὐλαβείσθω πᾶσα σὰρξ ἀπὸ προσώπου κυρίου διότι ἐξεγήγερται ἐκ νεφελῶν ἁγίων αὐτοῦ | 13 Be silent, living things, in the Lord’s presence; yonder in his holy dwelling all is astir. | 13 Sileat omnis caro a facie Domini, quia consurrexit de habitaculo sancto suo. |
[1] Although the prophet is given direct vision, it seems that he only understands the meaning of it through the medium of the angel who ‘speaks in him’ (cf. 1.9). This angel monitor comes and goes between heaven and earth (5.5), he ‘goes out’ from the divine presence, exactly like the deluding spirit in III Kg. 22.22, with some revelation about the measuring of Jerusalem, but is intercepted on his way by the assurance that the city needs no measuring.
[2] Literally, ‘that young man’ or ‘that child’. Conceivably the reference is to the man mentioned in verse 1, but more probably Zacharias is the ‘child’, not in years but in experience (III Kg. 3.7).
[3] No plausible explanation has been suggested to account for the words ‘after glory’, and it seems likely there has been an omission in the manuscripts; the more so, because Almighty God is the speaker in verse 8, and not in verse 9.
[4] For ‘my eye’ the Hebrew text gives ‘his eye’.
[5] The sudden change of speaker perhaps indicates that, all through this chapter, we are reading a series of prophetic fragments, not a continuous prophecy.
Knox Translation Copyright © 2013 Westminster Diocese
Nihil Obstat. Father Anton Cowan, Censor.
Imprimatur. +Most Rev. Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster. 8th January 2012.
Re-typeset and published in 2012 by Baronius Press Ltd
