And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.
And the Lord - Yahweh, called "the angel of the Lord" (Yahweh) (Zechariah 1:12).
Answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words - literally, words, consolations. The subject of these consolatory words is stated in Zechariah 1:14, etc.; the promise of full re-establishment, God's "comforts being restored unto him and to his mourners" (Jeremiah 20:10-11: cf. Isaiah 57:18; Hosea 11:8).