NET Bible
"The LORD then addressed good, comforting words to the angelic messenger who was speaking to me."
— Zechariah 1:13, NET Bible
“And the Lord answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.”
“And Jehovah answered the angel that talked with me with good words, even comfortable words. ”
“Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.”
“And the Lord answered the angel, that spoke in me, good words, comfortable words.”
“And the Lord gave an answer in good and comforting words to the angel who was talking to me.”
“And the Lord answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.”
Then the man standing among the myrtle trees spoke up and said,“These are the ones whom the LORD has sent to walk about on the earth.”
The riders then agreed with the angel of the LORD, who was standing among the myrtle trees,“We have been walking about on the earth, and now everything is at rest and quiet.”
The angel of the LORD then asked,“O LORD of Heaven’s Armies, how long before you have compassion on Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah which you have been so angry with for these seventy years?”
The LORD then addressed good, comforting words to the angelic messenger who was speaking to me.
Turning to me, the messenger then said,“Cry out that the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says,‘I am very much moved for Jerusalem and for Zion.
But I am greatly displeased with the nations that take my grace for granted. I was a little displeased with them, but they have only made things worse for themselves.
The Oracle of Response“‘Therefore,’ this is what the LORD has said,‘I have become compassionate toward Jerusalem and will rebuild my temple in it,’ says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.‘Once more a surveyor’s measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.’