Zechariah 2:1-5

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Third Vision: The Man with a Measuring Line

2 ^[a] I looked up and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand. ² Then I asked, “Where are you going?” He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.” ³ Then the angel who talked with me came forward, and another angel came forward to meet him, ⁴ and said to him, “Run, say to that young man: Jerusalem shall be inhabited like villages without walls, because of the multitude of people and animals in it. ⁵ For I will be a wall of fire all around it, says the Lord, and I will be the glory within it.”