准绳

我又举目观看,见有人拿着准绳。 于是我问:“你要去哪里?”他回答说:“去丈量耶路撒冷,看看有多宽多长。” 此前与我说话的天使离去时,迎着他走来另一位天使, 对他说:“快跑去告诉那青年,‘耶路撒冷必像没有城墙限制的村庄,因为城中将有大量的人和牲畜。 耶和华说,我要成为一堵火墙环绕耶路撒冷,作城中的荣耀。’

“耶和华说,‘我曾把你们分散到天下四方,现在,快!快逃离北方之地。这是耶和华说的。 住在巴比伦城的人啊,快逃到锡安吧!’” 万军之耶和华说,祂在彰显荣耀之后要差遣我去那些掳掠你们的国家,因为谁侵害你们,就是侵害祂的瞳仁。 看啊,祂要挥手攻击他们,使他们被自己的奴隶掳掠。那时你们便知道是万军之耶和华差遣了我。 10 耶和华说:“锡安城[a]啊,高声欢唱吧!因为我要来住在你里面。” 11 到那天,许多国家都要归向耶和华,做祂的子民。祂要住在你里面。那时,你便知道是万军之耶和华差遣我到你们这里来的。 12 耶和华必拥有犹大作祂圣地的产业,祂必再次拣选耶路撒冷。 13 世人都当在耶和华面前肃静,因为祂要从圣所起来了。

Footnotes

  1. 2:10 ”希伯来文是“女子”,可能是对锡安的昵称,下同9:9

Future Prosperity of Jerusalem

[a]When I looked again, I saw a man with a measuring line in his hand. “Where are you going?” I asked.

He replied, “I am going to measure Jerusalem, to see how wide and how long it is.”

Then the angel who was with me went to meet a second angel who was coming toward him. 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. Then I, myself, will be a protective wall of fire around Jerusalem, says the Lord. And I will be the glory inside the city!’”

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 away, people of Zion, you who are exiled in Babylon!”

After a period of glory, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies sent me[b] against the nations who plundered you. For he said, “Anyone who harms you harms my most precious possession.[c] 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.

10 The Lord says, “Shout and rejoice, O beautiful Jerusalem,[d] for I am coming to live among you. 11 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. 12 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. 13 Be silent before the Lord, all humanity, for he is springing into action from his holy dwelling.”

Footnotes

  1. 2:1 Verses 2:1-13 are numbered 2:5-17 in Hebrew text.
  2. 2:8a The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
  3. 2:8b Hebrew Anyone who touches you touches the pupil of his eye.
  4. 2:10 Hebrew O daughter of Zion.