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 livestock in it.”

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

6 “ Get up! Leave 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 “ Go, Zion! Escape, you who are living with Daughter Babylon.”

8 For the LORD of Hosts says this: “ He has sent Me for His glory against the nations who are plundering you, for anyone who touches you touches the pupil of His eye.

9 I will move against them with My power, and they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me.