Zechariah Chapter 2
A man with a measuring line reveals Jerusalem's future as a city God Himself will guard.
Continuing the night visions from Zechariah 1, the prophet now sees a man going out with a measuring line to gauge the breadth and length of Jerusalem.
\\1:18\\Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
\\1:19\\And I said to the angel that talked with me, What are these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.
\\1:20\\And the LORD showed me four carpenters.
\\1:21\\Then said I, What come these to do? And he spoke, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head: but these are come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.
\\2:1\\I lifted up my eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
\\2:2\\Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth, and what is its length.
\\2:3\\And behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,
\\2:4\\And said to him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle in it.
\\2:5\\For I, saith the LORD, will be to her a wall of fire on every side, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
\\2:6\\Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.
\\2:7\\Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.
\\2:8\\For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me to the nations which wasted you: for he that toucheth you, toucheth the apple of his eye.
\\2:9\\For behold, I will shake my hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me.
\\2:10\\Sing, and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.
\\2:11\\And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me to thee.
\\2:12\\And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.
\\2:13\\Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.