2Zechariah 2

1I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.Select Zechariah 2:1

2Then I asked, “Where are you going?” He said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth and what is its length.”Select Zechariah 2:2

3Behold, the angel who talked with me went out, and another angel went out to meet him,Select Zechariah 2:3

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.Select Zechariah 2:4

5For I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.Select Zechariah 2:5

6Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,’ says Yahweh; ‘for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,’ says Yahweh.Select Zechariah 2:6

7‘Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.’Select Zechariah 2:7

8For thus says Yahweh of Armies: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.Select Zechariah 2:8

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 Yahweh of Armies has sent me.Select Zechariah 2:9

10Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell in your midst,’ says Yahweh.Select Zechariah 2:10

11Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.Select Zechariah 2:11

12Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.Select Zechariah 2:12

13Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”Select Zechariah 2:13