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1 When I looked again, I saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.
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Then I looked up, and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand.
2 “Where are you going?” I asked. He replied, “I am going to measure Jerusalem, to see how wide and how long it is.”
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I asked, “Where are you going?” He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is.”
3 Then the angel who was with me went to meet a second angel who was coming toward him.
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While the angel who was speaking to me was leaving, another angel came to meet him
4 The other angel said, “Hurry, and say to that young man, ‘Jerusalem will someday be so full of people and livestock that there won’t be room enough for everyone! Many will live outside the city walls.
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and 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.
5 Then I, myself, will be a protective wall of fire around Jerusalem, says the LORD . And I will be the glory inside the city!’”
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And I myself will be a wall of fire around it,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will be its glory within.’
6 The LORD says, “Come away! Flee from Babylon in the land of the north, for I have scattered you to the four winds.
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“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 away, people of Zion, you who are exiled in Babylon!”
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“Come, Zion! Escape, you who live in Daughter Babylon!”
8 After a period of glory, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies sent me against the nations who plundered you. For he said, “Anyone who harms you harms my most precious possession.
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For 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—
9 I will raise my fist to crush them, and their own slaves will plunder them.” Then you will know that the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has sent me.
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I 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.
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