The Man with a Measure
1 I looked up and saw 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 its width and length are.”
3 The angel who spoke with me went out, and another angel went out to meet him, 4 and said to him, “Run, say this to the young man: ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited as unwalled villages because of the great number of people and livestock in it. 5 For I,’ declares the LORD, ‘will be for her, a wall of fire around her, and I will be the glory in her midst.’ ”
The Exiles are Called Home
6 “Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,” says the LORD; “for I have spread you abroad like the four winds of the sky,” says the LORD. 7 “Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.”
8 For the LORD of Hosts says: “It is for his honor that he has sent me to the nations which plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye. 9 I will shake my hand over them, and they will become plunder for their own servants, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent me.
10 Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion, for I am coming, and I will dwell within you,” says the LORD. 11 Many nations shall join themselves to the LORD on that day and shall be my people, and I will dwell among you, and you shall know that the LORD of Hosts has sent me to you. 12 The LORD will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land and will again choose Jerusalem. 13 Be silent, mankind, before the LORD, for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling place!”