1 I lifted my eyes and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand. 2 I asked, “Where are you going?” He said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see how wide and how long it is.” 3 Then the angel who was speaking with me went out, and another angel went out to meet him. 4 He said to him, “Run and tell that young man: ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited like unwalled villages because of the many people and livestock within it. 5 I myself,’ declares the LORD, ‘will be a wall of fire around her, and I will be the glory within her.’ ”

6 “Come, come! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the LORD, “for I have scattered you like the four winds of heaven,” declares the LORD. 7 “Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon!”

8 For this is what the LORD of hosts says: “After glory he sent me to the nations that plundered you, for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye. 9 For I am about to wave my hand over them, and they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me.

10 Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion, for I am coming and will dwell in your midst,” declares the LORD. 11 “Many nations will join themselves to the LORD on that day and will become my people. I will dwell in your midst, and you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.” 12 The LORD will take possession of Judah as his portion in the holy land and will again choose Jerusalem. 13 Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD, for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.