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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1I looked up and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2I asked, "Where are you going?" He answered me, "To measure Jerusalem to determine its width and length." |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Then the angel who was speaking with me went out, and another angel went out to meet him. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4He said to him, "Run and tell this young man: Jerusalem will be inhabited without walls because of the number of people and livestock in it." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The declaration of the LORD: "I myself will be a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory within it." |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"Listen! Listen! Flee from the land of the north"--this is the LORD's declaration--"for I have scattered you like the four winds of heaven"--this is the LORD's declaration. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"Listen, Zion! Escape, you who are living with Daughter Babylon." |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8For the LORD of Armies says this: "In pursuit of his glory, he sent me against the nations plundering you, for whoever touches you touches the pupil of my eye. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For look, I am raising my hand against them, and they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you will know that the LORD of Armies has sent me. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"Daughter Zion, shout for joy and be glad, for I am coming to dwell among you"--this is the LORD's declaration. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"Many nations will join themselves to the LORD on that day and become my people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the LORD of Armies has sent me to you. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The LORD will take possession of Judah as his portion in the Holy Land, and he will once again choose Jerusalem. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Let all people be silent before the LORD, for from his holy dwelling he has roused himself." |
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