Zechariah 2

A Man With a Measuring Line

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

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

While the angel who was speaking to me was leaving, another angel came to meet him and said to him: “Run, tell that young man, ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls^b because of the great number^c of people and animals in it.^d And I myself will be a wall^e of fire^f around it,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will be its glory^g within.’^hi

“Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the Lord, “for I have scattered^j you to the four winds of heaven,”^k declares the Lord.^l

“Come, Zion! Escape,^m you who live in Daughter Babylon!”ⁿ 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^o— I will surely raise my hand against them so that their slaves will plunder them.^p Then you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me.^q

“Shout^r and be glad, Daughter Zion.^s For I am coming,^t and I will live among you,”^u declares the Lord.^v “Many nations will be joined with the Lord in that day and will become my people.^w I will live among you and you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you.^x The Lord will inherit^y Judah^z as his portion in the holy land and will again choose^a Jerusalem. Be still^b before the Lord, all people, because he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.^c”