15 And I am indignant with great indignation against the nations that live in peace; for when I was little angry, they increased the evil. (Mr. God expresses purely human qualities and emotions: indignation, anger, jealousy. This means that this is an ordinary angry person! The believers left him without food, so he went away).
16 Therefore thus says the Lord: I turn to Jerusalem with mercy; My house will be built in it, says the Lord of hosts, and a surveying line will stretch across Jerusalem. (In the book, the teaching is presented in the form of apocalyptic visions. They contain all the necessary attributes of the apocalypse: four horsemen announce the fall of evil and the exaltation of the righteous, four broken horns symbolize the destruction of the enemies of Israel, the appearance of a husband with a surveying rope predicts the restoration of Jerusalem, a golden lamp with two olives emphasizes the special significance of the rank of king and priest in the kingdom of the messiah; the flying scroll is identified with the eradication of sin in the kingdom of the messiah).
17 Proclaim again and say: Thus says the Lord of hosts: My cities will again overflow with good things, and the Lord will comfort Zion, and will choose Jerusalem again. (Jerusalem and its main hill Zion will again restore their power).
18 And I lifted up my eyes and saw, behold, four horns. (How could it be without horns!).
19 And I said to the angel who spoke with me: What is this? And he answered me: These are the horns that scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem. (The two pairs of horns symbolize Egypt and Babylon.)
20 Then the Lord showed me four workmen. (The Angel and the Lord show and say something, just like ordinary people).
21 And I said, “What are they going to do?” He told me this: these horns have scattered Judas, so that no one can lift up his head; and these came to frighten them, to knock down the horns of the nations, who lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it. (The workers will destroy other people’s horns. Their horns are knocked off – apparently, a hint of Darius’s suppression of the uprising in these countries. Now their peoples are at peace. And Yahweh, that is, the top of Judaism, is still without his “home”. This is the concern of the Judaic priests ).