And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring
line in his hand! Then I said, “Where are you going?” And he said
to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is
its length.” And behold, the angel who talked with me came forward,
and another angel came forward to meet him and said to him, “Run,
say to that young man, ‘Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages
without walls, because of the multitude of people and livestock in
it. And I will be to her a wall of fire all around, declares the
LORD, and I will be the glory in her midst.’”
Up! Up! Flee from the land of the north, declares the LORD. For I
have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, declares
the LORD. Up! Escape to Zion, you who dwell with the daughter of
Babylon. For thus said the LORD of hosts, after his glory sent me
to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches
the apple of his eye: “Behold, I will shake my hand over them, and
they shall become plunder for those who served them. Then you will
know that the LORD of hosts has sent me. Sing and rejoice, O
daughter of Zion, for behold, I come and I will dwell in your
midst, declares the LORD. And many nations shall join themselves to
the LORD in that day, and shall be my people. And I will dwell in
your midst, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me
to you. And the LORD will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy
land, and will again choose Jerusalem.”
Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD, for he has roused himself
from his holy dwelling.
