Third Vision: A Measuring Line

¹This time I saw someone holding a measuring line,

²and I asked, “Where are you going?”

“To measure Jerusalem,” was the answer. “To find out how wide and long it is.”

³The angel who had spoken to me came toward me, when another angel came up to him

⁴and said, “Hurry! Tell that man with the measuring line that Jerusalem won't have any boundaries. It will be too full of people and animals even to have a wall.

⁵The Lord himself has promised to be a protective wall of fire surrounding Jerusalem, and he will be its shining glory in the heart of the city.”

A Call to Action

⁶The Lord says to his people, “Run! Escape from the land in the north, where I scattered you to the four winds.

⁷Leave Babylonia and hurry back to Zion.”

⁸Then the glorious Lord All-Powerful ordered me to say to the nations that had raided and robbed Zion:

¹³Everyone, be silent!

The Lord is present

and moving about

in his holy place.