Zechariah 2:1-9 ▼

1 I raised my eyes and looked, and there was a man with a measuring cord in his hand.

2 I asked, “Where are you going?” And he said, “To measure Jerusalem—to see how great its width is and how great its length.”

3 Then the angel who spoke with me advanced as another angel came out to meet him

4 and he said to the latter, “Run, speak to that official: Jerusalem will be unwalled, because of the abundance of people and beasts in its midst.

5 I will be an encircling wall of fire for it—oracle of the LORD—and I will be the glory in its midst.”

6 Up! Up! Flee from the land of the north —oracle of the LORD;—For like the four winds of heaven I have dispersed you—oracle of the LORD.

7 Up, Zion! Escape, you who dwell in daughter Babylon!

8 For thus says the LORD of hosts after the LORD’s glory had sent me, concerning the nations that have plundered you: Whoever strikes you strikes me directly in the eye.

9 Now I wave my hand over them, and they become plunder for their own servants. Thus you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me.