The Vision of the Measuring Line

2 Then I looked up and saw a man holding a line for measuring things. ² I asked him, “Where are you going?”

He said to me, “I am going to measure Jerusalem, to see how wide and how long it is.”

³ Then the ·angel [messenger] who was talking with me left, and another ·angel [messenger] came out to meet him. ⁴ The second ·angel [messenger] said to him, “Run and tell that young man, ‘Jerusalem will become a city without walls, because there will be so many people and ·cattle [livestock] in it. ⁵ I will be a wall of fire around it,’ says the Lord. ‘And I will be the glory within it.’

⁶ “·Oh no! Oh no [or Come! Come; or Up! Up]! Run away from ·Babylon [^Lthe land of the north], because I have scattered you like the four winds of heaven,” says the Lord.

⁷ “·Oh no [or Come; or Up], ·Jerusalem [^LZion; ^Cthe location of the Temple]! Escape, you who live in ·Babylon [^LDaughter Babylon].” ⁸ This is what the Lord ·All-Powerful [Almighty; of Heaven’s Armies; ^Tof hosts] says: “After ·he has honored me and [or the Glorious One; or for his own glory he] sent me against the nations who ·took your possessions [plundered you]—because whoever touches you ·hurts [^Ltouches] ·what is precious to me [^Tthe apple of his eye; ^Lthe pupil/little man of his eye]— ⁹ I will ·shake my hand [raise my fist] against them so that their slaves will ·rob [plunder] them.”

Then you will know that the Lord ·All-Powerful [Almighty; of Heaven’s Armies; ^Tof hosts] sent me.

¹⁰ “Shout and be glad, ·Jerusalem [^LDaughter Zion]. [^LFor look/^TBehold] I am coming, and I will live among you,” says the Lord. ¹¹ “At that time people from many nations will join with the Lord and will become my people. Then I will live among you, and you will know that the Lord ·All-Powerful [Almighty; of Heaven’s Armies; ^Tof hosts] has sent me to you. ¹² The Lord will ·take [possess; inherit] Judah as his own part of the holy land, and ·Jerusalem will be his chosen city again [^Lwill again choose Jerusalem]. ¹³ Be silent, ·everyone [^Lall flesh], in the presence of the Lord. He ·is coming [has roused himself] out of ·the holy place where he lives [his holy dwelling].”