Zechariah 2:1-13

Then I looked up again and had another vision. Behold, I saw a man with a measuring line in his hand. I asked him, “Where are you going with that?” “To measure Jerusalem,” he replied, “to calculate her width and length.” And behold, the angel who was talking with me left, and another angel came out to meet him. He said to him, “Run, and tell the surveyor to stop measuring, for Jerusalem will be too full of people and animals to measure or be enclosed by walls. So, I, YAHWEH, will be a protective wall of fire surrounding her and a radiant glory within her.” “Look out! Look out! Flee from Babylon,” declares YAHWEH, “for like the four winds of heaven I have scattered you in every direction,” declares YAHWEH. “Escape, Zion, you who live within the fair city of Babylon!” For YAHWEH, Commander of Angel Armies, sent me after glory. And he warns the nations who plundered you: “Whoever touches you, my precious ones, touches the apple of my eye. Now behold, I will raise my fist against them to crush them, and those whom they enslaved will plunder them. Then you will know that YAHWEH, Commander of Angel Armies, has sent me.” I, YAHWEH, declare to you: “It’s time to sing out and rejoice, my daughter Zion, for now I am coming to live among you.” At that time, people from many nations will be converted to YAHWEH and become his people, and he will live among them. Then you will know that YAHWEH, Commander of Angel Armies, has sent me to you. The people of Judah will become YAHWEH’s special people, his inheritance in the holy land, and he will again choose Jerusalem. Let everyone be silent before YAHWEH, for now he is stirring from his holy dwelling place.