Zechariah 2:1–9
1I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.↗
2Then I asked, “Where are you going?” He said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.”↗
3Behold, the angel who talked with me went out, and another angel went out to meet him,↗
4and said to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it.↗
5For I,’ says the LORD, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.↗
6Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,’ says the LORD; ‘for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,’ says the LORD.↗
7‘Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.’↗
8For the LORD of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.↗
9For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a plunder to those who served them; and you will know that the LORD of Armies has sent me.↗
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