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2:1  Then I raised my eyes and looked, and behold, there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.
2:2  So I said, “Where are you going?” And he said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see how wide it is and how long it is.”
2:3  And behold, the angel who had been speaking with me was going out, and another angel was going out to meet him.
2:4  And he said to him, “Run, speak to that young man there, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited as open country because of the multitude of people and cattle within it.
2:5  But I,’ declares the Lord, ‘will be a wall of fire to her on all sides, and I will be the glory in her midst.’”
2:6  “You there! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the Lord, “because I have spread you out like the four winds of the heavens,” declares the Lord.
2:7  “You, Zion! Escape, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon.”
2:8  For the Lord of armies says this: “After glory He has sent me against the nations that plunder you, for the one who touches you, touches the apple of His eye.
2:9  For behold, I am going to wave My hand over them so that they will be plunder for their slaves. Then you will know that the Lord of armies has sent Me.
2:10  Shout for joy and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for behold I am coming and I will dwell in your midst,” declares the Lord.
2:11  “And many nations will join themselves to the Lord on that day and will become My people. Then I will dwell in your midst, and you will know that the Lord of armies has sent Me to you.
2:12  And the Lord will possess Judah as His portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.
2:13  “Be silent, all mankind, before the Lord; for He has roused Himself from His holy dwelling.”