Zechariah 2:2-4

Good News Translation

² “Where are you going?” I asked.

“To measure Jerusalem,” he answered, “to see how long and how wide it is.”

³ Then I saw the angel who had been speaking to me step forward, and another angel came to meet him. ⁴ The first one said to the other, “Run and tell that young man with the measuring line that there are going to be so many people and so much livestock in Jerusalem that it will be too big to have walls.