3. Then the Lord showed me four workmen.
4. And I said, “What are these coming to do?” And the Lord said, “Those are the horns that scattered Judah, so that none could raise their heads any more; and these have come to terrify them—to cut down the horns of the nations that raised their horns to scatter the land of Judah.”
5. I raised my eyes and looked, and there was a man with a measuring cord in his hand.
6. I asked, “Where are you going?” And he said, “To measure Jerusalem—to see how great its width is and how great its length.”
7. Then the angel who spoke with me advanced as another angel came out to meet him
8. and he said to the latter, “Run, speak to that official: Jerusalem will be unwalled, because of the abundance of people and beasts in its midst.
9. I will be an encircling wall of fire for it—oracle of the Lord—and I will be the glory in its midst.”
10. Up! Up! Flee from the land of the north—oracle of the Lord;—For like the four winds of heaven I have dispersed you—oracle of the Lord.
11. Up, Zion! Escape, you who dwell in daughter Babylon!
12. For thus says the Lord of hosts after the Lord’s glory had sent me, concerning the nations that have plundered you: Whoever strikes you strikes me directly in the eye.