The Vision of Jerusalem

40 At the beginning of year 25 of our captivity, on the tenth day of the fourteenth year after the destruction of Jerusalem^[a]—on that very day—the Lord grabbed me in his hand and took me there. ² God brought me in a series of visions to the land of Israel and placed me on top of a very high mountain, where to the south there was something that looked like the outline of a city. ³ That’s where he took me. All of a sudden, there was a man whose appearance resembled glowing^[b] bronze! He had a measuring reed and line in his hand as he stood in the city gate. ⁴ This is what the man told me: “Son of Man, watch carefully,^[c] listen closely,^[d] and remember^[e] everything I’m going to be showing you, because you’ve been brought here to be shown what you’re about to see. Be sure that you tell the house of Israel everything that you observe.”