World English Bible
"Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words."
— Zechariah 1:13, World English 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. ”
“The LORD then addressed good, comforting words to the angelic messenger who was speaking to me.”
“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.”
The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered, "They are the ones Yahweh has sent to go back and forth through the earth."
They reported to the angel of Yahweh who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, "We have walked back and forth through the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and in peace."
Then the angel of Yahweh replied, "O Yahweh of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?"
Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.
So the angel who talked with me said to me, "Proclaim, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity."
Therefore thus says Yahweh: "I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it," says Yahweh of Armies, "and a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem."'