¹I lifted up my eyes, and I saw, and behold, a man, and in his hand the rope of size.

²And I said: Where do you go? And he said to me: To measure Jerusalem, to see as what is her breadth and as what is her length.

³And behold, the messenger that speaks in me went forth, and another messenger went forth to encounter him.

⁴And he said to him: Run, speak to this boy, saying: Jerusalem will dwell as open country, from the multitude of man and livestock in her middle.

⁵And I will be to it, the utterance of Yahweh, a wall of fire round about, and for weightiness I will be in her middle.

⁶Flee from the land of the north, the utterance of Yahweh, for as the four winds of the skies I spread you abroad, the utterance of Yahweh.

⁷Oh Zion, escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.

⁸For like this Yahweh of hosts said: After weightiness he sent me to the nations, those who plunder you, for he that touches in you touches in the apple of his eye.

⁹For behold me, I will wave my hand over them, and they will be plunder to their slaves; and you will know that Yahweh of hosts sent me out.

¹⁰Aloud for joy and rejoice, daughter of Zion, for behold me, I come, and I will dwell in your middle, the utterance of Yahweh.

¹¹And great nations will be joined to Yahweh in that day, and they will be to me as a people, and I will dwell in your middle; and you will know that Yahweh of hosts sent me to you.

¹²And Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion over the holy ground, and will choose Jerusalem again.

¹³Quiet, all flesh, from the face of Yahweh, for he awoke from the dwelling place of his holiness.