Zechariah 2

A Man With a Measuring Line

2^aThen I looked up, and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand. ²I asked, “Where are you going?”

He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is.”^s

³While the angel who was speaking to me was leaving, another angel came to meet him ⁴and said to him: “Run, tell that young man, ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls^t because of the great number^u of people and animals in it.^{v 5}And I myself will be a wall^w of fire^x around it,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will be its glory^y within.’^z

⁶“Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the Lord, “for I have scattered^a 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 eye^f—⁹I will surely raise my hand against them so that their slaves will plunder them.^bg Then you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me.^h

¹⁰“Shoutⁱ and be glad, Daughter Zion.^j For I am coming,^k and I will live among you,”^l declares the Lord.^{m 11}“Many nations will be joined with the Lord in that day and will become my people.ⁿ I will live among you and you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you.^{o 12}The Lord will inherit^p Judah^q as his portion in the holy land and will again choose^r Jerusalem. ¹³Be still^s before the Lord, all mankind, because he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.^t”