Chapter 2

The Vision of the Measuring Line

Ezekiel 40:1–4

¹Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.

²“Where are you going?” I asked.

“To measure Jerusalem,” he replied, “and to determine its width and length.”

³Then the angel who was speaking with me went out, and another angel came out to meet him ⁴and said to him, “Run and tell that young man: ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the multitude of men and livestock within it. ⁵For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.’”

The Redemption of Zion

Hosea 3:1–5

⁶“Get up! Get up! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the LORD, “for I have scattered you like the four winds of heaven,” declares the LORD. ⁷“Get up, O Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the Daughter of Babylon!”

⁸For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “After His Glory has sent Me^a against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple^b of His eye—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. ¹¹“On that day many nations will join themselves to the LORD, and they will become My people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you. ¹²And the LORD will take possession of Judah as His portion in the Holy Land, and He will once again choose Jerusalem. ¹³Be silent before the LORD, all people, for He has roused Himself from His holy dwelling.”