I asked him, "Sir, what do these horses mean?" He answered, "I will show you what they mean.

and the angel told me to proclaim what the LORD Almighty had said: "I have a deep love and concern for Jerusalem, my holy city,

I asked the angel that had been speaking to me, "What do these horns mean?" He answered, "They stand for the world powers that have scattered the people of Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem."

Then I saw the angel who had been speaking to me step forward, and another angel came to meet him.

"Don't you know?" he asked me. "No, I don't, sir," I replied.