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Then the angel who spoke with me advanced as another angel came out to meet him and he said to the latter, “Run, speak to that official:[a] Jerusalem will be unwalled, because of the abundance of people and beasts in its midst.(A) I will be an encircling wall of fire[b] for it—oracle of the Lord—and I will be the glory in its midst.”(B)

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  1. 2:8 That official: probably the man with the measuring cord of v. 5.
  2. 2:9 Encircling wall of fire: divine protection for an unwalled Jerusalem. Urban centers were generally walled, and Jerusalem’s walls were eventually rebuilt in the late fifth century B.C. (Neh 2:17–20).

“Come, Zion! Escape,(A) you who live in Daughter Babylon!”(B) 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(C) I will surely raise my hand against them so that their slaves will plunder them.[a](D) Then you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me.(E)

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  1. Zechariah 2:9 Or says after … eye: “I … plunder them.”