Zechariah 2

³So He took me there, and I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze. He was standing in the gateway with a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand.

¹⁶Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there My house will be rebuilt, declares the Lord of Hosts, and a measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.’

⁴Then he measured off a thousand cubits and led me through knee-deep water. Again he measured a thousand cubits and led me through waist-deep water.

¹⁵The angel who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod to measure the city and its gates and walls.

¹Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count the number of worshipers there.

⁵And I saw a wall surrounding the temple area. Now the length of the measuring rod in the man’s hand was six long cubits (each measuring a cubit and a handbreadth), and he measured the wall to be one rod thick and one rod high.

¹⁵The angel who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod to measure the city and its gates and walls.

¹⁶The city lies foursquare, with its width the same as its length. And he measured the city with the rod, and all its dimensions were equal—12,000 stadia in length and width and height.

⁶As the property of the city, you are to set aside an area 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, adjacent to the holy district. It will belong to the whole house of Israel.

³⁹The measuring line will once again stretch out straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn toward Goah.

¹Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count the number of worshipers there.

¹⁰“Where are they taking the basket?” I asked the angel who was speaking with me.

¹⁵The remaining area, 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, will be for common use by the city, for houses, and for pastureland. The city will be in the center of it

¹⁶and will have these measurements: 4,500 cubits on the north side, 4,500 cubits on the south side, 4,500 cubits on the east side, and 4,500 cubits on the west side.

¹⁹So I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these?” And he told me, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”

¹³So the Lord spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who was speaking with me.

¹⁴Then the angel who was speaking with me said, “Proclaim this word: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: ‘I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion,

⁸I looked out into the night and saw a man riding on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in the hollow, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.

⁹“What are these, my lord?” I asked. And the angel who was speaking with me replied, “I will show you what they are.”

⁵“Do you not know what they are?” replied the angel. “No, my lord,” I answered.

⁵Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and told me, “Now lift up your eyes and see what is approaching.”

¹Then the angel who was speaking with me returned and woke me, as a man is awakened from his sleep.

¹⁷Proclaim further that this is what the Lord of Hosts says: ‘My cities will again overflow with prosperity; the Lord will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.’”

²²As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”

¹¹The day for rebuilding your walls will come—the day for extending your boundary.

¹¹You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will come against a quiet people who dwell securely, all of them living without walls or bars or gates—

²⁷“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and of beast.

⁴This is what the Lord of Hosts says: “Old men and old women will again sit along the streets of Jerusalem, each with a staff in hand because of great age.

⁵And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing there.”

⁵Then the Lord will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy,

³But You, O Lord, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head.

⁸But I will camp around My house because of an army, because of those who march to and fro, and never again will an oppressor overrun My people, for now I keep watch with My own eyes.

¹⁸No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.

¹⁹No longer will the sun be your light by day, nor the brightness of the moon shine on your night; for the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your splendor.

²³And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.

⁶Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”

²⁰Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! Declare it with a shout of joy, proclaim it, let it go out to the ends of the earth, saying, “The Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob!”

²¹All his choice troops will fall by the sword, and those who survive will be scattered to every wind. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken.’

¹⁶Therefore declare that this is what the Lord God says: ‘Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries to which they have gone.’

⁴Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues.

⁶⁴Then the Lord will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

¹⁷As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”

²⁰Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! Declare it with a shout of joy, proclaim it, let it go out to the ends of the earth, saying, “The Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob!”

⁶Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.

¹⁷As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”

⁴Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues.

¹¹Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the Lord.

⁴⁰With many other words he testified, and he urged them, “Be saved from this corrupt generation.”

⁸Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings

¹⁰He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.

²¹But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.

²²If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.

²⁶But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you.

⁶After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

¹³they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.

¹⁴He let no man oppress them; He rebuked kings on their behalf:

¹⁶In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the Lord of Hosts, when He brandishes it against them.

¹⁵Even those far away will come and build the temple of the Lord, and you will know that the Lord of Hosts has sent Me to you. This will happen if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God.”

¹⁰They will not gather wood from the countryside or cut it from the forests, for they will use the weapons for fuel. They will loot those who looted them and plunder those who plundered them, declares the Lord God.

²The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the Lord’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.

⁹“The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will complete it. Then you will know that the Lord of Hosts has sent me to you.

²Raise a banner on a barren hilltop; call aloud to them. Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.

¹⁴The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

⁹Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

²⁰and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

³This is what the Lord says: “I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the Lord of Hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.”

¹⁴Sing for joy, O Daughter of Zion; shout aloud, O Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O Daughter of Jerusalem!

¹⁵The Lord has taken away your punishment; He has turned back your enemy. Israel’s King, the Lord, is among you; no longer will you fear any harm.

²⁷My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people.

¹⁵Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”

⁹But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

¹⁰Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

⁹I will surely wave My hand over them, so that they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you will know that the Lord of Hosts has sent Me.”

¹⁰“Shout for joy and be glad, O Daughter of Zion, for I am coming to dwell among you,” declares the Lord.

³²a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to Your people Israel.”

²⁸Be advised, therefore, that God’s salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen!”

¹⁴This is what the Lord says: “The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, along with the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you and will be yours; they will trudge behind you; they will come over in chains and bow down to you. They will confess to you: ‘God is indeed with you, and there is no other; there is no other God.’”

¹⁷Proclaim further that this is what the Lord of Hosts says: ‘My cities will again overflow with prosperity; the Lord will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.’”

⁹But the Lord’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.

¹⁶The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance—the Lord of Hosts is His name.

¹²Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!

¹⁹The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and of the tribe of His inheritance—the Lord of Hosts is His name.

⁴For the Lord has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.

²⁰But the Lord is in His holy temple; let all the earth be silent before Him.

⁷Be silent in the presence of the Lord God, for the Day of the Lord is near. Indeed, the Lord has prepared a sacrifice; He has consecrated His guests.

⁵A father of the fatherless and a defender of widows is God in His holy habitation.

⁶⁵Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.

¹⁰“Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth.”

⁸Therefore wait for Me,” declares the Lord, “until the day I rise to testify. For My decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them My indignation—all My burning anger. For all the earth will be consumed by the fire of My jealousy.