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2 Then I looked up, and wow, I saw a man holding a measuring line[fn] 2 and I asked him, “Where are you going?”
“To measure Yerushalem,” he replied, “and to determine its width and length.”
3 Then to my surprise, the messenger who’d talked with me went away and another messenger went out to meet him 4 and told him, “Run and speak to that young man, saying: Yerushalem won’t need city walls because there’ll be so many people and animals within it. 5 Yahweh declares that he’ll become a wall of fire around it and will become the splendour in the middle of it.
6 Yahweh declares: Get up and get moving. Flee from that land in the north, because I had scattered you into the four winds. 7 Now run you people who live in Babylon—escape to Tsiyyon (Zion). 8 Army commander Yahweh said that, after he honoured and sent me against the nations that plundered you—
because whoever touches you, is messing with God’s favourite.
9 He said, “I myself will punish them, and they’ll be looted by their own slaves.”
When you see that, then you’ll know that army commander Yahweh sent me.
10 Yahweh declares: “Sing and be glad, daughter of Tsiyyon, because I myself will come and settle among you.”
11 Then powerful nations will join Yahweh at that time, and they will become his people. He will settle among you, and you will know that army commander Yahweh has sent me to you. 12 Then Yahweh will inherit Yehudah as his rightful possession in that sacred region, and will once again choose Yerushalem.
13 All people everywhere, be silent before Yahweh, because from his sacred place, he’s been driven into action.
2:1 The modern equivalent would be a tape measure.