Zechariah 2  Living Bible

2 When I looked around me again, I saw a man carrying a yardstick in his hand.

² “Where are you going?” I asked.

“To measure Jerusalem,” he said. “I want to see whether it is big enough for all the people!”

³ Then the angel who was talking to me went over to meet another angel coming toward him.

⁴ “Go tell this young man,” said the other angel, “that Jerusalem will some day be so full of people that she won’t have room enough for all! Many will live outside the city walls, with all their many cattle—and yet they will be safe. ⁵ For the Lord himself will be a wall of fire protecting them and all Jerusalem; he will be the glory of the city.

^6-7 “Come, flee from the land of the north, from Babylon,” says the Lord to all his exiles there; “I scattered you to the winds, but I will bring you back again. Escape, escape to Zion now!” says the Lord.

⁸ “The Lord of Glory has sent me^[a] against the nations that oppressed you, for he who harms you sticks his finger in Jehovah’s eye!

⁹ “I will smash them with my fist and their slaves will be their rulers! Then you will know it was the Lord Almighty who sent me. ¹⁰ Sing, Jerusalem, and rejoice! For I have come to live among you,” says the Lord. ^11-12 “At that time many nations will be converted to the Lord, and they too shall be my people; I will live among them all. Then you will know it was the Lord Almighty who sent me to you. And Judah shall be the Lord’s inheritance in the Holy Land, for God shall once more choose to bless Jerusalem.

¹³ “Be silent, all mankind, before the Lord, for he has come to earth from heaven, from his holy home.”