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1 Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, there was 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 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."
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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 And behold, the angel who was speaking with me was going out, and another angel was coming out to meet him,
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While the angel who was speaking to me was leaving, another angel came to meet him
4 and said to him, "Run, speak to that young man, saying, 'Jerusalem will be inhabited without walls because of the multitude of men and cattle within it.
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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 'For I,' declares the LORD , 'will be a wall of fire around her, and I will be the glory in her midst.' "
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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 "Ho there! Flee from the land of the north," declares the LORD , "for I have dispersed you as the four winds of the heavens," declares the LORD .
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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 "Ho, Zion! Escape, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon."
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“Come, Zion! Escape, you who live in Daughter Babylon!”
8 For thus says the LORD of hosts, "After glory He has sent me against the nations which plunder you, for he who touches you, touches the apple of His eye.
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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 "For behold, I will wave My hand over them so that they will be plunder for their slaves. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts 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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