Chapter 2
1 I lifted up my eyes , and saw , and behold , a man with a measuring line in his hand.
2 Then I asked , " Where are you going?" He said to me , " To measure Jerusalem , to see what is its width and what is its length."
3 Behold , the angel who talked with me went out , and another angel went out to meet him ,
4 and 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 .
5 For I ,’ says Yahweh , ‘ will be to her a wall of fire around it , and I will be the glory in the middle of her .
6 Come ! 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 .
7 ‘ Come , Zion! Escape , you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.’
8 For Yahweh of Armies says : ‘ For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you ; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.
9 For , 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 .
10 Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion ! For behold, I come and I will dwell within you ,’ says Yahweh .
11 Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people ; and I will dwell among you , and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you .
12 Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem .
13 Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh ; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!"