Zechariah 1:13

Young's Literal Translation

And Jehovah answereth the messenger, who is speaking with me, good words, comfortable words.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord replied with kind and comforting words to the angel who was speaking with me.

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.

King James Version (1611)
And the Lord answered the Angel that talked with me, with good words, and comfortable words.

King James Version
And the Lord answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.

English Standard Version
And the Lord answered gracious and comforting words to the angel who talked with me.

New American Standard Bible
And the LORD responded to the angel who was speaking with me with gracious words, comforting words.

New Century Version
So the Lord answered the angel who was talking with me, and his words were comforting and good.

Amplified Bible
And the LORD answered the angel who was speaking with me with gracious and comforting words.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Lorde answered the Angel that talked with me, with good wordes and comfortable wordes.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The LORD answered the angel who was speaking with me with gracious words, comforting words.

Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh answered the angel who was speaking with me with good words, comforting words.

Berean Standard Bible
So the LORD spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who was speaking with me.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord 's answer was kind and comforting.

Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai replied with kind and comforting words to the angel who was speaking with me.

Darby Translation
And Jehovah answered the angel that talked with me good words, comforting words.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then the Lord answered the angel who was talking with me. He spoke good, comforting words.

George Lamsa Translation
And the LORD answered the angel who talked with me with good words and comforting words.

Good News Translation
The Lord answered the angel with comforting words,

Lexham English Bible
With gracious and comforting words Yahweh answered the angel who was talking with me.

Literal Translation
And Jehovah answered the angel who was talking with me with good words, words of comfort.

American Standard Version
And Jehovah answered the angel that talked with me with good words, even comfortable words.

Bible in Basic English
And the Lord gave an answer in good and comforting words to the angel who was talking to me.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD answered the angel that spoke with me with good words, even comforting words--

Bishop's Bible (1568)
So the Lorde gaue a louing and a comfortable aunswere vnto the angel that talked with me.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord Almighty answered the angel that spoke with me good words and consolatory sayings.

English Revised Version
And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words, even comfortable words.

World English Bible
Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord answeride to the aungel, that spak in me, goode wordis, and wordis of coumfort.

Update Bible Version
And Yahweh answered the angel that talked with me with good words, [even] comfortable words.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me [with] good words [and] comforting words.

New English Translation
The Lord then addressed good, comforting words to the angelic messenger who was speaking to me.

New King James Version
And the LORD answered the angel who talked to me, with good and comforting words.

New Living Translation
And the Lord spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who talked with me.

New Life Bible
And the Lord spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who was speaking with me.

New Revised Standard
Then the Lord replied with gracious and comforting words to the angel who talked with me.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Yahweh answered the messenger who was speaking with me, in words that were pleasant, - words that were consoling,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord answered the angel, that spoke in me, good words, comfortable words.

Revised Standard Version
And the LORD answered gracious and comforting words to the angel who talked with me.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So the LORDE gaue a louynge and a confortable answere, vnto the angel that talked with me.

THE MESSAGE
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.

Contextual Overview

⁷ On the twenty and fourth day of the eleventh month, (it [is] the month of Sebat,) in the second year of Darius, hath a word of Jehovah been unto Zechariah, son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, the prophet, saying: ⁸ I have seen by night, and lo, one riding on a red horse, and he is standing between the myrtles that [are] in the shade, and behind him [are] horses, red, bay, and white. ⁹ And I say, `What [are] these, my lord?' And the messenger who is speaking with me saith unto me, `I -- I do shew thee what these [are].' ¹⁰ And the one who is standing between the myrtles doth answer and say, `These [are] they whom Jehovah hath sent to walk up and down in the land.' <sup>11</sup> And they answer the messenger of Jehovah who is standing between the myrtles, and say, `We have walked up and down in the land, and lo, all the land is sitting still, and at rest.' ¹² And the messenger of Jehovah answereth and saith, `Jehovah of Hosts! till when dost Thou not pity Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, that Thou hast abhorred these seventy years?' <sup>13</sup> And Jehovah answereth the messenger, who is speaking with me, good words, comfortable words. <sup>14</sup> And the messenger who is speaking with me, saith unto me, `Call, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: I have been zealous for Jerusalem, and for Zion [with] great zeal. ¹⁵ And [with] great wrath I am wroth against the nations who are at ease, For I was a little wroth, and they assisted -- for evil. ¹⁶ Therefore, thus said Jehovah: I have turned to Jerusalem with mercies, My house is built in it, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And a line is stretched over Jerusalem.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

with good: Zechariah 1:14-16, Zechariah 2:4-12, Zechariah 8:2-8, Zechariah 8:19, Isaiah 40:1, Isaiah 40:2, Jeremiah 29:10, Jeremiah 30:10-22, Jeremiah 31:3-14, Amos 9:11-15, Zephaniah 3:14-20

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 12:7 - speak good Psalms 102:13 - Thou Proverbs 12:25 - but Daniel 12:6 - one said Zechariah 2:3 - the angel Zechariah 3:1 - he Zechariah 4:1 - the angel

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord answered the angel that talked with me,.... See Zechariah 1:9 what was the effect of Christ's intercession for the people of the Jews, was communicated to a ministering angel, and by him to the Prophet Zechariah:

[with] good words, and comfortable words; such as would be for the good and comfort of God's people, as follows; see Isaiah 40:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the Lord answered the angel that talked with me - Either directly, at the intercession of the angel of the Lord, or mediately through an answer first given to him, and by him communicated to the subordinate angel. Neither is expressed.

Good words - As God had promised, “after seventy years shall be accomplished at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word unto you, causing you to return to this place” Jeremiah 29:10; and Joshua says, “There failed not ought of any good word which the Lord spake unto the house of Israel” (Joshua 21:43 (45 English) add Joshua 23:14-15).

Comfortable words - Literally, “consolations” (asIsaiah 57:18; Isaiah 57:18). Perhaps the Angel who received the message had, from their tender compassion for us, whereby they “joy over one sinner that repenteth” Luke 15:10, a part in these consolations which he conveyed.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 1:13. The Lord answered the angel — And the angel told the prophet that the answer was gracious and comfortable. This answer is given in the next verse.