2:1 Then I looked up and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand!
2:2 I asked, Where are you going? He answered me, To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long itZec.
2:3 Then the angel who was speaking to me left, and another angel came to meet him
2:4 and said to him: Run, tell that young man, ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the great number of men and livestock in it.
2:5 And I myself will be a wall of fire around it,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will be its glory within.’
2:6 Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north, declares the LORD, for I have scattered you to the four winds of heaven, declares the LORD.
2:7 Come, O Zion! Escape, you who live in the Daughter of Babylon!
2:8 For this is what the LORD Almighty says: After he has honoured me and has sent me against the nations that have plundered you for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye
2:9 I will surely raise my hand against them so that their slaves will plunder them. [Or says after...eye: 9 I...plunder them.] Then you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me.
2:10 Shout and be glad, O Daughter of Zion. For I am coming, and I will live among you, declares the LORD.
2:11 Many nations will be joined with the LORD in that day and will become my people. I will live among you and you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me to you.
2:12 The LORD will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land and will again choose Jerusalem.
2:13 Be still before the LORD, all mankind, because he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.