Zechariah 2:4-6

Revised Standard Version

⁴ and said to him, “Run, say to that young man, ‘Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and cattle in it. ⁵ For I will be to her a wall of fire round about, says the Lord, and I will be the glory within her.’”

Interlude: An Appeal to the Exiles

⁶ Ho! ho! Flee from the land of the north, says the Lord; for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, says the Lord.