Zechariah 2:1–9
2 a Then I looked up, and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand. 2 I asked, “Where are you going?”
He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is.”s
3 While the angel who was speaking to me was leaving, another angel came to meet him 4 and said to him: “Run, tell that young man, ‘Jerusalem will be a city without wallst because of the great numberu of people and animals in it.v 5 And I myself will be a wallw of firex around it,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will be its gloryy within.’z
6 “Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the Lord, “for I have scattereda you to the four winds of heaven,”b declares the Lord.c
7 “Come, Zion! Escape,d you who live in Daughter Babylon!”e 8 For this is what the Lord Almighty says: “After the Glorious One has sent me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eyef—9 I will surely raise my hand against them so that their slaves will plunder them.b g Then you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me.h