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!”