2:1 ①Then I raised my eyes and looked, and behold, there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.
▷ ①Ch 2:5 in Heb
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 “ ①You 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.
▷ ①Lit Hoy
2:7 “ ①You, Zion! Escape, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon.”
▷ ①Lit Hoy
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 ①apple of His eye.
▷ ①Lit pupil
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 ①possess Judah as His portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.
▷ ①Or inherit
2:13 “ ①Be silent, all ②mankind, before the LORD; for He has roused Himself from His holy dwelling.”
▷ ①Lit Hush ②Lit flesh