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2:1  Then I looked up and saw a man. In his hand was a measuring line.
2:2  I said, “Where are you going?” He said to me, “To measure Jerusalem to see how wide and long it will be.”
2:3  As I watched, the messenger speaking with me went ahead and another messenger came to meet him.
2:4  He said to him, “Run! Say to this young man: Jerusalem will be inhabited like open fields because of the throngs of people and cattle inside it.
2:5  But I will be a wall of fire around it, says the Lord, and I will be glorious inside it.
2:6  Look out; look out! Flee from the land of the north, says the Lord, for I will scatter you like the four winds of heaven, says the Lord.
2:7  Look out, Zion. Flee, you who dwell with Daughter Babylon!
2:8  The Lord of heavenly forces proclaims (after his glory sent me) concerning the nations plundering you: Those who strike you strike the pupil of my eye.
2:9  But look, I am about to raise my hand against them; they will become prey to their own slaves, so you will know that the Lord of heavenly forces sent me.
2:10  Rejoice and be glad, Daughter Zion, because I am about to come and dwell among you, says the Lord.
2:11  Many nations will be joined to the Lord on that day. They will become my people, and I will dwell among you so you will know that the Lord of heavenly forces sent me to you.”
2:12  The Lord will possess Judah as his inheritance upon the holy land; he will again choose Jerusalem.
2:13  Be silent, everyone, in the Lord’s presence, because he has moved from his holy habitation!