¹I lifted up my eyes , and saw , and behold , 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.”

³Behold , 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 men and livestock in it .

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

⁶Come ! Come ! Flee from the land of the north,’ says the LORD ; ‘for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,’ says the LORD .

⁷‘Come , Zion! Escape , you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.’

⁸For the LORD of Armies says : ‘For honour he has sent me to the nations which plundered you ; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

⁹For , behold, I will shake my hand over them , and they will be a plunder to those who served them ; and you will know that the LORD of Armies has sent me .

¹⁰Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion ! For behold, I come and I will dwell within you ,’ says the LORD .

¹¹Many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people ; and I will dwell amongst you , and you shall know that the LORD of Armies has sent me to you .

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

¹³Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD ; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”