1 Sitten Herra antoi minun nähdä ylipappi Joosuan, joka seisoi Herran enkelin edessä. Saatana seisoi Joosuan oikealla puolella ja syytti häntä.
3 Joosua seisoi enkelin edessä, likaiset vaatteet päällään.
6 Herran enkeli vakuutti Joosualle:
7 Näin sanoo Herra Sebaot: -- Jos kuljet minun teitäni ja noudatat säädöksiä, jotka olen sinulle antanut, saat hallita temppelissäni ja valvoa esipihojani. Minä korotan sinut näiden palvelijoitteni joukkoon.
9 Näettekö kiven, jonka olen pannut Joosuan eteen? Siinä yhdessä kivessä on seitsemän silmää! -- Katsokaa, minä kaiverran siihen kirjoitukseni, sanoo Herra Sebaot. Yhdessä hetkessä minä otan pois tämän maan synnin.
1 And he sheweth me Joshua the high priest standing before the messenger of Jehovah, and the Adversary standing at his right hand, to be an adversary to him.
2 And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary: `Jehovah doth push against thee, O Adversary, Yea, push against thee doth Jehovah, Who is fixing on Jerusalem, Is not this a brand delivered from fire?`
3 And Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and is standing before the messenger.
4 And he answereth and speaketh unto those standing before him, saying: `Turn aside the filthy garments from off him.` And he saith unto him, `See, I have caused thine iniquity to pass away from off thee, so as to clothe thee with costly apparel.`
5 He also said, `Let them set a pure diadem on his head. And they set the pure diadem on his head, and clothe him with garments. And the messenger of Jehovah is standing,
6 and the messenger of Jehovah doth protest to Joshua, saying:
7 `Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: If in My ways thou dost walk, And if My charge thou dost keep, Then also thou dost judge My house, And also thou dost keep My courts, And I have given to thee conductors among these standing by.
8 Hear, I pray thee, Joshua, the high priest, Thou and thy companions sitting before thee, (For men of type [are] they,) For lo, I am bringing in My servant -- a Shoot.
9 For lo, the stone that I put before Joshua, On one stone [are] seven eyes, Lo, I am graving its graving, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And I have removed the iniquity of that land in one day.
10 In that day -- an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, Ye do call, each unto his neighbour, Unto the place of the vine, And unto the place of the fig-tree!`