Zechariah 2:1-9 ▼

1 Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.

2 “Where are you going?” I asked. “To measure Jerusalem (city of peace),” he replied, “and to determine its width and length.”

3 Then the angel who was speaking with me went forth, and another angel came forward to meet him

4 and said to him, “Run and tell that young man: ‘Jerusalem (city of peace) will be a city without walls because of the multitude of men and livestock within it.

5 For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD {YHWH}, and I will be the glory within it.’”

6 “Get up! Get up! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the LORD {YHWH}, “for I have scattered you⁺ like the four winds {ruachowt} of heaven,” declares the LORD.

7 “Get up, O Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the Daughter of Babylon (confusion by mixing)!”

8 For this is what the LORD {YHWH} of Hosts says: “After His Glory has sent Me (After the Glorious One has sent Me) against the nations that have plundered you⁺—for whoever touches you⁺ touches the apple (the pupil) of His eye—

9 I will surely wave My hand over them, so that they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you⁺ will know that the LORD {YHWH} of Hosts has sent Me.”