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What does Zechariah 1:15 mean?

"I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”"

— Zechariah 1:15 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

12

Then Yahweh’s angel 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?”

13

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

14

So the angel who talked with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.

15

I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”

16

Therefore Yahweh says: “I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and a line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.”’

17

“Proclaim further, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and Yahweh will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem.”’”

18

I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four horns.

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