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Zechariah 2

Hebrew Names Version HNV

1 I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.

2 Then I asked, "Where are you going?" He said to me, "To measure Yerushalayim, to see what is its breadth and what is its length."

3 Behold, the angel who talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,

4 and said to him, "Run, speak to this young man, saying, 'Yerushalayim will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and cattle in it.

5 For I,' says the LORD, 'will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.

6 Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,' says the LORD; 'for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,' says the LORD.

7 'Come, Tziyon! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Bavel.'

8 For thus says the LORD of hosts: 'For honor 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 will be a spoil to those who served them; and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent me.

10 Sing and rejoice, daughter of Tziyon; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of you,' says the LORD.

11 Many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know that the LORD of Hosts has sent me to you.

12 The LORD will inherit Yehudah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Yerushalayim.

13 Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!"

The Message Bible MSG

1 I looked up and was surprised to see a man holding a tape measure in his hand.

2 I said, "What are you up to?" "I'm on my way," he said, "to survey Jerusalem, to measure its width and length."

3 Just then the Messenger-Angel on his way out

4 and said, "Run! Tell the Surveyor, 'Jerusalem will burst its walls - bursting with people, bursting with animals.

5 And I'll be right there with her' - God's Decree - 'a wall of fire around unwalled Jerusalem and a radiant presence within.'"

6 "Up on your feet! Get out of there - and now!" God says so. "Return from your far exile. I scattered you to the four winds." God's Decree.

7 "Escape from Babylon, Zion, and come home - now!"

8 God-of-the-Angel-Armies, the One of Glory who sent me on my mission, commenting on the godless nations who stripped you and left you homeless, said, "Anyone who hits you, hits me - bloodies my nose, blackens my eye.

9 Yes, and at the right time I'll give the signal and they'll be stripped and thrown out by their own servants." Then you'll know for sure that God-of-the-Angel-Armies sent me on this mission.

10 "Shout and celebrate, Daughter of Zion! I'm on my way. I'm moving into your neighborhood!" God's Decree.

11 Many godless nations will be linked up with God at that time. ("They will become my family! I'll live in their homes!") And then you'll know for sure that God-of-the-Angel-Armies sent me on this mission.

12 God will reclaim his Judah inheritance in the Holy Land. He'll again make clear that Jerusalem is his choice.

13 Quiet, everyone! Shh! Silence before God. Something's afoot in his holy house. He's on the move!