1 I looked up again, and there was a man holding a measuring line.
2 "Where are you headed?" I asked. He told me, "To measure Jerusalem, to find out how broad and how long it is."
3 Then the angel who was speaking with me went out, and another angel came out to meet him
4 and told him, "Hurry, tell that young man: Jerusalem will be a city without walls, spread out like open villages, because of all the people and animals within it.
5 I myself will be a wall of fire around her, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within her."
6 Away, away! Flee from the northern land, declares the LORD, for I have spread you out like the four winds of the sky, declares the LORD.
7 Come, Zion, get out, you who live with the daughter of Babylon!
8 For thus says the LORD of hosts: After glory he has sent me to the nations that plundered you, for anyone who touches you touches the pupil of his eye.
9 I am about to raise my hand against them, and they will be looted by their own slaves. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts sent me.
10 Sing out and be glad, daughter of Zion! For I am coming to live among you, declares the LORD.
11 On that day many nations will attach themselves to the LORD and become my people. I will live among you, and you will know that the LORD of hosts sent me to you.
12 The LORD will claim Judah as his share in the holy land and will once more choose Jerusalem.
13 Be still before the LORD, all flesh, for he has risen up from his holy dwelling.