Zechariah 2:1-12

New King James Version

Vision of the Measuring Line

2 Then I raised my eyes and looked, and behold, ^(A)a man with a measuring line in his hand. ²So I said, “Where are you going?”

And he said to me, ^(B)“To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.”

³And there was the angel who talked with me, going out; and another angel was coming out to meet him, ⁴who said to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying: ^(C)‘Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it. ⁵For I,’ says the Lord, ‘will be ^(D)a wall of fire all around her, ^(E)and I will be the glory in her midst.’ ”

Future Joy of Zion and Many Nations

⁶“Up, up! Flee ^(F)from the land of the north,” says the Lord; “for I have ^(G)spread you abroad like the four winds of heaven,” says the Lord. ⁷“Up, Zion! ^(H)Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.”

⁸For thus says the Lord of hosts: “He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who ^(I)touches you touches the ^[a]apple of His eye. ⁹For surely I will ^(J)shake My hand against them, and they shall become ^[b]spoil for their servants. Then ^(K)you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me.

¹⁰^(L)“Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! For behold, I am coming and I ^(M)will dwell in your midst,” says the Lord. ¹¹^(N)“Many nations shall be joined to the Lord ^(O)in that day, and they shall become ^(P)My people. And I will dwell in your midst. Then ^(Q)you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me to you. ¹²And the Lord will ^(R)take possession of Judah as His inheritance in the Holy Land, and will again choose Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

Zechariah 2:8 Lit. pupil
Zechariah 2:9 booty or plunder

Zechariah 14:1-9

New King James Version

The Day of the Lord^(A)

14 Behold, ^(B)the day of the Lord is coming,
And your ^[a]spoil will be divided in your midst.
²For ^(C)I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem;
The city shall be taken,
The houses ^[b]rifled,
And the women ravished.
Half of the city shall go into captivity,
But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

³Then the Lord will go forth
And fight against those nations,
As He fights in the day of battle.
⁴And in that day His feet will stand ^(D)on the Mount of Olives,
Which faces Jerusalem on the east.
And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two,
From east to west,
^(E)Making a very large valley;
Half of the mountain shall move toward the north
And half of it toward the south.

⁵Then you shall flee through My mountain valley,
For the mountain valley shall reach to Azal.
Yes, you shall flee
As you fled from the ^(F)earthquake
In the days of Uzziah king of Judah.

^(G)Thus the Lord my God will come,
And ^(H)all the saints with ^[c]You.

⁶It shall come to pass in that day
That there will be no light;
The ^[d]lights will diminish.
⁷It shall be one day
^(I)Which is known to the Lord—
Neither day nor night.
But at ^(J)evening time it shall happen
That it will be light.

⁸And in that day it shall be
That living ^(K)waters shall flow from Jerusalem,
Half of them toward ^[e]the eastern sea
And half of them toward ^[f]the western sea;
In both summer and winter it shall occur.
⁹And the Lord shall be ^(L)King over all the earth.
In that day it shall be—
^(M)“The Lord is one,”
And His name one.