Zechariah 2:1-9 ▼

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

2 I asked, |Where are you going?| He responded, |To measure Jerusalem in order to determine its width and length.|

3 Look! That angel who was talking to me left, and another angel came forward to meet him.

4 That other angel told him, |Run and tell that young man: 'Jerusalem will be an inhabited city without walls due to the number of people and livestock within it.

5 I myself will be an encircling rampart of fire,' declares the LORD, 'and I will be the glory in her midst.'

6 |'Come now! Come now! Flee from the land of the north,' declares the LORD, 'for I have dispersed you like the four winds of heaven,' declares the LORD.

7 |'Come now, Zion! Escape, you who are living with the residents of Babylon.

8 For this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: |In pursuit of glory I was sent to the nations who plundered you, because whoever injures you injures the pupil of my eye.

9 And look, I will shake my fist over them, and they will become plunder for their former slaves. And you will know that the LORD of the Heavenly Armies sent me.|'|