1 Then I looked up, and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand.
2 I asked, ‘Where are you going?’He answered me, ‘To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is.’
3 While the angel who was speaking to me was leaving, another angel came to meet him
4 and said to him: ‘Run, tell that young man, “Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the great number of people and animals in it.
5 And I myself will be a wall of fire around it,” declares the Lord, “and I will be its glory within.”
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.
7 ‘Come, Zion! Escape, you who live in Daughter Babylon!’