- 1. I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.
- 2. Then I asked, "Where are you going?" He said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth and what is its length."
- 3. Behold, the angel who talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,
- 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.
- 5. For I,' says Yahweh, 'will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.
- 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.
- 7. 'Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.'
- 8. For thus says Yahweh of Armies: 'For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.
- 9. For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a spoil to those who served them; and you will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me.
- 10. Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of you,' says Yahweh.
- 11. Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.
- 12. Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.
- 13. Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!"
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