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A Man With a Measuring Line
Then I looked up, and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand.
Then I looked up, and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand.
I asked, “Where are you going?”
He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is.”
He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is.”
“Where are you going?” I asked.
He replied, “I am going to measure Jerusalem, to see how wide and how long it is.”
He replied, “I am going to measure Jerusalem, to see how wide and how long it is.”
While the angel who was speaking to me was leaving, another angel came to meet him
Then the angel who was with me went to meet a second angel who was coming toward him.
and said to him: “Run, tell that young man, ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the great number of people and animals in it.
The other angel said, “Hurry, and say to that young man, ‘Jerusalem will someday be so full of people and livestock that there won’t be room enough for everyone! Many will live outside the city walls.
And I myself will be a wall of fire around it,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will be its glory within.’
Then I, myself, will be a protective wall of fire around Jerusalem, says the LORD. And I will be the glory inside the city!’”
“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.
The Exiles Are Called Home
The LORD says, “Come away! Flee from Babylon in the land of the north, for I have scattered you to the four winds.
“Come, Zion! Escape, you who live in Daughter Babylon!”
Come away, people of Zion, you who are exiled in Babylon!”
For this is what the Lord Almighty says: “After the Glorious One has sent me against the nations that have plundered you — for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye —
I will raise my fist to crush them, and their own slaves will plunder them.” Then you will know that the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has sent me.
“Shout and be glad, Daughter Zion. For I am coming, and I will live among you,” declares the Lord.
“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.
Many nations will join themselves to the LORD on that day, and they, too, will be my people. I will live among you, and you will know that the LORD of Heaven’s Armies sent me to you.
The Lord will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land and will again choose Jerusalem.
The land of Judah will be the LORD’s special possession in the holy land, and he will once again choose Jerusalem to be his own city.