The Vision of a Man with a Measuring Line

⁵I looked up, and I saw a man holding a measuring line. ⁶“Where are you going?” I asked. “To measure Jerusalem,” he replied, “to see how long and wide it is to be.” ⁷But the angel who talked with me came forward, and another angel came forward to meet him. ⁸The former said to him, “Run to that young man and tell him:

“Jerusalem shall be peopled as a city without walls, so many shall be the men and cattle it contains. ⁹And I Myself—declares the Lord—will be a wall of fire all around it, and I will be a glory inside it.”