NETfree - Zechariah - 2

2:1  I looked again, and there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.

2:2  I asked, "Where are you going?" He replied, "To measure Jerusalem in order to determine its width and its length."

2:3  At this point the angelic messenger who spoke to me went out, and another messenger came to meet him

2:4  and said to him, "Hurry, speak to this young man as follows: 'Jerusalem will no longer be enclosed by walls because of the multitude of people and animals there.

2:5  But I (the LORD says) will be a wall of fire surrounding Jerusalem and the source of glory in her midst.'"

2:6  "You there! Flee from the northland!" says the LORD, "for like the four winds of heaven I have scattered you," says the LORD.

2:7  "Escape, Zion, you who live among the Babylonians!"

2:8  For the LORD who rules over all says to me that for his own glory he has sent me to the nations that plundered you - for anyone who touches you touches the pupil of his eye.

2:9  "I am about to punish them in such a way," he says, "that they will be looted by their own slaves." Then you will know that the LORD who rules over all has sent me.

2:10  "Sing out and be happy, Zion my daughter! For look, I have come; I will settle in your midst," says the LORD.

2:11  "Many nations will join themselves to the LORD on the day of salvation, and they will also be my people. Indeed, I will settle in the midst of you all." Then you will know that the LORD who rules over all has sent me to you.

2:12  The LORD will take possession of Judah as his portion in the holy land and he will choose Jerusalem once again.

2:13  Be silent in the LORD's presence, all people everywhere, for he is being moved to action in his holy dwelling place.