Zechariah 2:9-11
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
9 I will be an encircling wall of fire[a] for it—oracle of the Lord—and I will be the glory in its midst.”(A)
Expansion on the Themes of the First Three Visions. 10 Up! Up! Flee from the land of the north[b]—oracle of the Lord;—For like the four winds of heaven I have dispersed you—oracle of the Lord.(B) 11 Up, Zion! Escape, you who dwell in daughter Babylon!
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- 2:9 Encircling wall of fire: divine protection for an unwalled Jerusalem. Urban centers were generally walled, and Jerusalem’s walls were eventually rebuilt in the late fifth century B.C. (Neh 2:17–20).
- 2:10 Land of the north: refers to Babylon (v. 11), in a geographic rather than a political sense, as the place from which exiles will return. The designation is “north” because imperial invaders historically entered Palestine from that direction (see Jer 3:18; 23:8).
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