1 I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.

2 T hen I asked, “Where are you going?” He said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.”

3 B ehold, the angel who talked with me went out, and another angel went out to meet him,

4 a nd 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.

5 F or I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.

6 C ome! Come! Flee from the land of the north,’ says Yahweh; ‘for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,’ says Yahweh.

7 ‘ Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.’

8 F or Yahweh 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.

9 F or, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a plunder to those who served them; and you will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me.

10 S ing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell within you,’ says Yahweh.

11 M any nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell among you, and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.

12 Y ahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.

13 B e silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”