Zechariah 2:1-5

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Third Vision: The Man with a Measuring Line

2 ^[a] And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand! ² Then I said, “Where are you going?” And he said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth and what is its length.” ³ And behold, the angel who talked with me came forward, and another angel came forward to meet him, ⁴ and said to him, “Run, say to that young man, ‘Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and cattle in it. ⁵ For I will be to her a wall of fire round about, says the Lord, and I will be the glory within her.’”