OET INT FRT GEN EXO LEV NUM DEU JOB JOS JDG RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG JOEL MIC ISA ZEP HAB JER LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBA DAN EZE EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR DNG GES LES ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAO PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
ZEC Intro C1 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14
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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 (Jerusalem),” 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.
2:1 The modern equivalent would be a tape measure.
2:5 Note: KJB: Zech.2.1
2:6 Note: KJB: Zech.2.2
2:7 Note: KJB: Zech.2.3
2:8 Note: KJB: Zech.2.4
2:8 OSHB note: Marks a place where we agree with BHQ against BHS in reading L.
2:8 OSHB note: We have abandoned or added a ketib/qere relative to BHS. In doing this we agree with L against BHS.
2:9 Note: KJB: Zech.2.5
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 Bavel (Babylon)—escape to Tsiyon (Zion). 8 Commander-in-chief Yahweh said that, after he honoured and sent me against the nations that plundered you—
because anyone who 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 Commander-in-chief Yahweh sent me.
10 Yahweh declares: “Sing and be glad, daughter of Tsiyon, 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 Commander-in-chief Yahweh has sent me to you. 12 Then Yahweh will inherit Yehudah (Judah) as his rightful possession in that sacred region, and will once again choose Yerushalem (Jerusalem).
13 All people everywhere, be silent before Yahweh, because from his sacred place, he’s been driven into action.
