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Zechariah 2:5 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" For I,’ says the LORD, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her. "
Zechariah 2:5
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3 Behold, the angel who talked with me went out, and another angel went out to meet him,
4 and said to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it.
5 For I,’ says the LORD, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.
6 Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,’ says the LORD; ‘for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,’ says the LORD.
7 ‘Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.’
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Zechariah 2:1
"I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand."
Zechariah 2:2
"Then I asked, “Where are you going?” He said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.”"
Zechariah 2:3
"Behold, the angel who talked with me went out, and another angel went out to meet him,"
Zechariah 2:4
"and said to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it."
Zechariah 2:6
"Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,’ says the LORD; ‘for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,’ says the LORD."
Zechariah 2:7
"‘Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.’"
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