13-15 God reassured the Angel-Messenger—good words, comforting words—who then addressed me: “Tell them this. Tell them that God-of-the-Angel-Armies has spoken. This is God’s Message: ‘I care deeply for Jerusalem and Zion. I feel very possessive of them. But I’m thoroughly angry with the godless nations that act as if they own the whole world. I was only moderately angry earlier, but now they’ve gone too far. I’m going into action.

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13 So the Lord spoke(A) kind and comforting words(B) to the angel who talked with me.(C)

14 Then the angel who was speaking to me said, “Proclaim this word: This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I am very jealous(D) for Jerusalem and Zion, 15 and I am very angry with the nations that feel secure.(E) I was only a little angry,(F) but they went too far with the punishment.’(G)

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