1 Then I looked up and saw a man. He was holding a measuring line.
2 "Where are you going?" I asked. "To measure Jerusalem," he answered. "I want to find out how wide and how long it is."
3 Then the angel who was talking with me left. Another angel came over to him.
4 He said to him, "Run! Tell that young man Zechariah, 'Jerusalem will be like a city that does not have any walls around it. It will have huge numbers of people and animals in it.
5 And I myself will be like a wall of fire around it,' announces the Lord. 'I will be the city's glory.' "
6 "Israel, I have scattered you in all four directions," announces the Lord. "Come quickly! Run away from the land of the north," announces the Lord.
7 "Come, people of Zion who are in Babylonia! Escape, you who live in the city of Babylon!"