1 And I lifted up my eyes, and looked. And, behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.
2 Then I said, Where do thou go? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem. To see what is the breadth of it, and what is the length of it.
3 And, behold, the agent who talked with me went forth. And another agent went out to meet him,
4 and said to him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and cattle therein.
5 For I, says Jehovah, will be to her a wall of fire round about, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.
6 Ho, ho, flee from the land of the north, says Jehovah. For I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, says Jehovah.
7 Ho Zion, escape, thou who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.
8 For thus says Jehovah of hosts: After glory he has sent me to the nations which plundered you. For he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.
9 For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall be a spoil to those who served them. And ye shall know that Jehovah of hosts has sent me.
10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, says Jehovah.
11 And many nations shall join themselves to Jehovah in that day, and shall be my people, and I will dwell in the midst of thee. And thou shall know that Jehovah of hosts has sent me to thee.
12 And Jehovah shall inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
13 Be silent, all flesh, before Jehovah, for he has arisen out of his holy habitation.
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Today's Verse
And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands.
Verse Of The DayRather than walls, the LORD promises to be a wall of fire round about the city and the glory in her midst, protecting her people as closely as Psalms 17:8 describes the apple of the eye. The vision of Joshua the high priest follows in Zechariah 3.
