Zechariah 2:1 ←
I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.
Zechariah 2:2 ←
Then I asked, “Where are you going?” He said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.”
Zechariah 2:3 ←
Behold, the angel who talked with me went out, and another angel went out to meet him,
Zechariah 2:4 ←
and 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.
Zechariah 2:5 ←
For I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.
Zechariah 2:6 ←
Come! 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.
Zechariah 2:7 ←
‘Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.’
Zechariah 2:8 ←
For 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.
Zechariah 2:9 ←
For, 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.
Zechariah 2:10 ←
Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion! For behold, I come and I will dwell within you,’ says Yahweh.
Zechariah 2:11 ←
Many 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.
Zechariah 2:12 ←
Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.
Zechariah 2:13 ←
Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”
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