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Then I raised my eyes and looked, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.
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So I said, "Where are you going?" And he said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length."
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And there was the angel who talked with me, going out; and another angel was coming out to meet him,
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who said to him, "Run, speak to this young man, saying: 'Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it.
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For I,' says the Lord, 'will be a wall of fire all around her, and I will be the glory in her midst.' "
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"Up, up! Flee from the land of the north," says the Lord; "for I have spread you abroad like the four winds of heaven," says the Lord.
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Up, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon."
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For thus says the Lord of hosts: "He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye.
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For surely I will shake My hand against them, and they shall become spoil for their servants. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me.