| 2:1 | I looked again, and there was a man with a measuring line in his hand. |
| 2:2 | I asked, “Where are you going?” He replied, “To measure Jerusalem* in order to determine its width and its length.” |
| 2:3 | At this point the angelic messenger* who spoke to me went out, and another messenger came to meet him |
| 2:4 | and said to him, “Hurry, speak to this young man* as follows: ‘Jerusalem will no longer be enclosed by walls* because of the multitude of people and animals there. |
| 2:5 | But I (the Lord says) will be a wall of fire surrounding Jerusalem* and the source of glory in her midst.’” |
| 2:6 | “You there!* Flee from the northland!” says the Lord, “for like the four winds of heaven* I have scattered you,” says the Lord. |
| 2:7 | “Escape, Zion, you who live among the Babylonians!”* |
| 2:8 | For the Lord who rules over all says to me that for his own glory* he has sent me to the nations that plundered you – for anyone who touches you touches the pupil* of his* eye. |
| 2:9 | “I am about to punish them* in such a way,” he says, “that they will be looted by their own slaves.” Then you will know that the Lord who rules over all has sent me. |
| 2:10 | “Sing out and be happy, Zion my daughter!* For look, I have come; I will settle in your midst,” says the Lord. |
| 2:11 | “Many nations will join themselves to the Lord on the day of salvation,* and they will also be my* people. Indeed, I will settle in the midst of you all.” Then you will know that the Lord who rules over all has sent me to you. |
| 2:12 | The Lord will take possession of* Judah as his portion in the holy land and he will choose Jerusalem once again. |
| 2:13 | Be silent in the Lord’s presence, all people everywhere,* for he is being moved to action in his holy dwelling place.* |
Zechariah 2 - NET Bible [draft]
