1. Then I looked up and saw a man holding a rope for measuring things.
2. I asked him, “Where are you going?” He said to me, “I am going to measure Jerusalem, to see how wide and how long it is.”
3. Then the angel who was speaking to me left, and another angel went out to talk to him.
4. He said to him, “Run and tell that young man this: ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls, because there will be too many people and animals living there.’
5. The Lord says, ‘I will be a wall of fire around her, to protect her, and to bring glory to that city, I will live there.’” The Lord says,
6. “Hurry! Leave the land in the North in a hurry. Yes, it is true that I scattered your people in every direction.
7. You people from Zion now live in Babylon. Escape! Run away from that city!”