Zechariah 2:1-5

A Man With a Measuring Line 1In Hebrew texts 2:1-13 is numbered 2:5-17. Then I looked up, and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand.

2I asked, “Where are you going?” He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is.” 3While the angel who was speaking to me was leaving, another angel came to meet him 4and said to him: “Run, tell that young man, ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the great number of people and animals in it.

5And I myself will be a wall of fire around it,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will be its glory within.’