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 around 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.”