Zechariah 2
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- 1I looked up again and saw a man holding a measuring line in his hand.
- 2I asked him, "Where are you going?" He answered, "To measure Jerusalem — to find out how wide and how long it is."
- 3Then the angel who had been speaking with me went out, and another angel came out to meet him.
- 4And he said to him, “Run and speak to this young man, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited like towns without walls because of the great number of people and livestock within it.’”
- 5"'For I myself,' declares the LORD, 'will be a wall of fire surrounding her, and I will be the glory within her.'
- 6'Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north,' declares the LORD, 'for I have scattered you to the four winds of the heavens,' says the LORD.
- 7Escape, Zion, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.
- 8For thus says the LORD of hosts: 'After the glory, he has sent me to the nations that plundered you, for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye.'
- 9For look, I will shake my hand upon them, and they will be plunder for their servants, and you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me.
- 10Sing and celebrate, daughter of Zion! For look — I am coming, and I will dwell in your midst," declares the LORD.
- 11"On that day, many nations will join themselves to the LORD and become my people. I will live among you, and you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.
- 12The LORD will claim Judah as his own portion in the holy land, and he will once again choose Jerusalem as his own.
- 13Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD, for he has risen from his holy habitation.