Zechariah 2:1-9 ▼

1 I looked up and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.

2 I asked, “Where are you going? ” He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem to determine its width and length.”

3 Then the angel who was speaking with me went out, and another angel went out to meet him.

4 He said to him, “Run and tell this young man: Jerusalem will be inhabited without walls because of the number of people and animals in it.”

5 The declaration of the LORD: “I myself will be a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory within it.”

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 “Listen, Zion! Escape, you who are living with Daughter Babylon.”

8 For 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 For 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.