Zechariah 2

A city without walls

Then I looked up, and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand.a 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.’b

The apple of his eye

⁶“Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the Lord, “for I have scattered you to the four winds of heaven,” declares the Lord. ⁷“Come, Zion! Escape, you who live in Daughter Babylon!” ⁸For this is what the Lord Almighty says: “After the Glorious One has sent me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye—c ⁹I will surely raise my hand against them so that their slaves will plunder them. Then you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me.

¹⁰“Shout and be glad, Daughter Zion. For I am coming, and I will live among you,” declares the Lord. ¹¹“Many nations will be joined with the Lord in that day and will become my people. I will live among you and you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you. ¹²The Lord will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land and will again choose Jerusalem.

¹³Be still before the Lord, all mankind, because he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.”d