NIV Zechariah 2 Chapter
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2:1
Then I looked up--and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand!
2:2
I asked, "Where are you going?" He answered me, "To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is."
2:3
Then the angel who was speaking to me left, and another angel came to meet him
2:4
and said to him: "Run, tell that young man, `Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the great number of men and livestock in it.
2:5
And I myself will be a wall of fire around it,' declares the LORD, `and I will be its glory within.
2:6
"'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.
2:7
"Come, O Zion! Escape, you who live in the Daughter of Babylon!"
2:8
For this is what the LORD Almighty says: "After he has honored me and has sent me against the nations that have plundered you--for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye--
2:9
I will surely raise my hand against them so that their slaves will plunder them. ""
2:10
"Shout and be glad, O Daughter of Zion. For I am coming, and I will live among you," declares the LORD.
2:11
"Many nations will be joined with the LORD in that day and will become my people. I will live among you and you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me to you.
2:12
The LORD will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land and will again choose Jerusalem.
2:13
Be still before the LORD, all mankind, because he has roused himself from his holy dwelling."