Third Vision: Surveyor

2 I looked up and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand. ² I asked, ‘Where are you going? ’

He answered me, ‘To measure Jerusalem to determine its width and length.’

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 this young man: Jerusalem will be inhabited without walls because of the number of people and animals in it.’^{(A) 5} The declaration of the Lord: ‘I myself will be a wall^(B) of fire round it, and I will be the glory within it.’

⁶ ‘Listen! Listen! Flee from the land of the north’^(C) – this is the Lord’s declaration – ‘for I have scattered you like the four winds of heaven’ – this is the Lord’s declaration. ⁷ ‘Listen, Zion! Escape, you who are living with Daughter Babylon.’ ⁸ For the Lord of Armies says this: ‘In pursuit of his glory, he sent me against the nations plundering you, for whoever touches you touches the pupil^[a] of my^[b] eye. ⁹ For look, I am raising my hand against them, and they will become plunder for their own servants.^(D) Then you will know that the Lord of Armies has sent me.

¹⁰ ‘Daughter Zion, shout for joy and be glad, for I am coming to dwell among you’ – this is the Lord’s declaration. ¹¹ ‘Many nations will join themselves to the Lord on that day and become my^[c] people.^(E) I will dwell among you, and you will know that the Lord of Armies has sent me to you. ¹² The Lord will take possession of Judah as his portion in the Holy Land, and he will once again choose Jerusalem.^{(F) 13} Let all humanity be silent^(G) before the Lord, for from his holy dwelling he has roused himself.’