1. (2:5) I looked again, and there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.
2. I asked, “Where are you going?” He replied, “To measure Jerusalem in order to determine its width and its length.”
3. At this point the angelic messenger who spoke to me went out, and another messenger came to meet him
4. and said to him, “Hurry, speak to this young man as follows: ‘Jerusalem will no longer be enclosed by walls because of the multitude of people and animals there.
5. But I (the Lord says) will be a wall of fire surrounding Jerusalem and the source of glory in her midst.’”
6. “You there! Flee from the northland!” says the Lord, “for like the four winds of heaven I have scattered you,” says the Lord.
7. “Escape, Zion, you who live among the Babylonians!”
8. For the Lord who rules over all says to me that for his own glory he has sent me to the nations that plundered you – for anyone who touches you touches the pupil of his eye.
9. “I am about to punish them in such a way,” he says, “that they will be looted by their own slaves.” Then you will know that the Lord who rules over all has sent me.