Vision #3: A Man With a Measuring Line

¹I lifted up my eyes and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.

²Then I asked, “Where are you going?”

He said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.”

³Then the angel who talked with me went out, and another angel went out to meet him,

⁴and said to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of humans and livestock in it.

⁵For I,’ says YHWH, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.

⁶Oh Oh! Y’all must flee from the land of the north,’ declares YHWH, ‘for I have scattered y’all like the four winds of heaven,’ says YHWH.

⁷‘Oh, Zion! Escape, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon.’

⁸For YHWH Almighty says: ‘For honor ʜᴇ has sent me against the nations that plundered y’all; for whoever touches y’all touches the apple of ʜɪꜱ eye.

⁹Look! I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a plunder to those who served them. Then y’all will know that YHWH Almighty has sent me.

¹⁰Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion! For Look! I come and I will dwell within you,’ says YHWH.

¹¹Many nations will join themselves to YHWH in that day, and will become my people. Then I will dwell among you, and you will know that YHWH Almighty has sent me to you.

¹²YHWH will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.

¹³Be silent, all flesh, before YHWH; for ʜᴇ has roused himself from ʜɪꜱ holy habitation!”