(Ezekiel 40:1–4)

¹ Then 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.”

³ Then the angel who was speaking with me went out, and another angel came out to meet him

⁴ and 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.

⁵ For 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!”

⁸ For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “After His Glory has sent Me¹ against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple² of His eye—

1. Or After the Glorious One has sent Me or After He has honored Me and sent Me
2. Or the pupil

⁹ I 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.

¹² And the LORD will take possession of Judah as His portion in the Holy Land, and He will once again choose Jerusalem.

¹³ Be silent before the LORD, all people, for He has roused Himself from His holy dwelling.”