Zaccharias Propheta 2

1 Et levavi oculos meos, et vidi, et ecce vir, et in manu ejus funiculus mensorum.

Then I looked again and I saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.

2 Et dixi: Quo tu vadis? Et dixit ad me: Ut metiar Jerusalem, et videam quanta sit latitudo ejus, et quanta longitudo ejus.

“Where are you going?” I asked him. “I'm going to Jerusalem to measure its width and length,” he replied.

3 Et ecce angelus qui loquebatur in me egrediebatur, et angelus alius egrediebatur in occursum ejus:

The angel I was talking to came forward and another angel came to meet him

4 et dixit ad eum: Curre, loquere ad puerum istum, dicens: Absque muro habitabitur Jerusalem, præ multitudine hominum et jumentorum in medio ejus.

and told him, “Run, and tell the young man that Jerusalem will have so many people and farm animals that it will be too big to have walls.”

5 Et ego ero ei, ait Dominus, murus ignis in circuitu, et in gloria ero in medio ejus.

The Lord declares, I myself will be a wall of fire all around the city, and I will be the glory inside it.

6 [O, o, fugite de terra aquilonis, dicit Dominus, quoniam in quatuor ventos cæli dispersi vos, dicit Dominus.

Run! Run! Run away from the northern land, says the Lord, because I have scattered you to the four winds of heaven.

7 O Sion! fuge, quæ habitas apud filiam Babylonis:

Run away, people of Zion! All of you who live in Babylon must escape.

8 quia hæc dicit Dominus exercituum: Post gloriam misit me ad gentes quæ spoliaverunt vos: qui enim tetigerit vos, tangit pupillam oculi mei:

For this is what the Lord Almighty said: Afterwards the glorious Lord sent me against the nations that plundered you—for those who touch you touch the apple of his eye.

9 quia ecce ego levo manum meam super eos, et erunt prædæ his qui serviebant sibi: et cognoscetis quia Dominus exercituum misit me.

I will raise my hand against them and their former slaves will plunder them. Then you will know the Lord Almighty has sent me.

10 Lauda et lætare, filia Sion, quia ecce ego venio, et habitabo in medio tui, ait Dominus.

Sing in celebration, people of Zion, for I am coming to live with you, declares the Lord.

11 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.

Many nations will become believers in Lord on that day, and they shall be my people. I will live among you, and you will know the Lord Almighty has sent me to you.

12 Et possidebit Dominus Judam partem suam in terra sanctificata, et eliget adhuc Jerusalem.

The people of Judah will be the Lord's special people in the holy land, and he will once again choose Jerusalem as his special city.

13 Sileat omnis caro a facie Domini, quia consurrexit de habitaculo sancto suo.]

Be silent before the Lord, everyone, for he has risen from the holy place where he lives.