A Man With a Measuring Line
In Hebrew texts 2:1-13 is numbered 2:5-17. 1Then I looked up, and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand. 2I asked, “Where are you going?”
He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is.”
3While the angel who was speaking to me was leaving, another angel came to meet him 4and said to him: “Run, tell that young man, ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the great number of people and animals in it. 5And I myself will be a wall of fire around it,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will be its glory within.’
6“Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the Lord, “for I have scattered you to the four winds of heaven,” declares the Lord.
7“Come, Zion! Escape, you who live in Daughter Babylon!” 8For this is what the Lord Almighty says: “After the Glorious One has sent me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye— 9I will surely raise my hand against them so that their slaves will plunder them.2:8,9 Or says after… eye: 9 “I… plunder them.” Then you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me.
10“Shout and be glad, Daughter Zion. For I am coming, and I will live among you,” declares the Lord. 11“Many nations will be joined with the Lord in that day and will become my people. I will live among you and you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you. 12The Lord will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land and will again choose Jerusalem. 13Be still before the Lord, all mankind, because he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.”
Maono Ya Tatu: Mtu Mwenye Kamba Ya Kupimia
1Kisha nikatazama juu: pale mbele yangu alikuwepo mtu mwenye kamba ya kupimia mkononi mwake! 22:2 Eze 40:3; Zek 1:16; Ufu 21:15Nikamuuliza, “Unakwenda wapi?”
Akanijibu, “Kupima Yerusalemu, kupata urefu na upana wake.”
3Kisha malaika aliyekuwa akizungumza nami akaondoka, malaika mwingine akaja kukutana naye 42:4 Eze 38:11; Isa 49:20; Yer 30:19; 33:22; Zek 14:11; Eze 36:10na kumwambia: “Kimbia, umwambie yule kijana, ‘Yerusalemu utakuwa mji usio na kuta kwa sababu ya wingi wa watu na mifugo iliyomo. 52:5 Isa 10:17; 11:10; 24:23; 26:1; Eze 38:14; 42:20; Za 46:5; 85:9; 125:2; Ufu 21:23; Isa 4:5Mimi mwenyewe nitakuwa ukuta wa moto kuuzunguka,’ asema Bwana, ‘nami nitakuwa utukufu wake ndani yake.’
62:6 Za 44:11; Eze 17:21; 37:9; Mt 24:31; Mk 13:27; Kum 28:64“Njooni! Njooni! Kimbieni mtoke katika nchi ya kaskazini,” asema Bwana, “Kwa kuwa nimewatawanya kwenye pande nne za mbingu,” asema Bwana.
72:7 Isa 42:7; 48:20; Yer 3:18“Njoo, ee Sayuni! Kimbia, wewe ukaaye ndani ya Binti Babeli!” 82:8 Kum 32:10; 2The 1:6Kwa kuwa hivi ndivyo asemavyo Bwana Mwenye Nguvu Zote: “Baada ya yeye kuniheshimu na kunituma mimi dhidi ya mataifa yaliyokuteka nyara, kwa kuwa yeyote awagusaye ninyi, anaigusa mboni ya jicho lake, 92:9 Isa 14:2; 48:16; Yer 12:14; Hab 2:8; Zek 4:9; 6:15hakika nitauinua mkono wangu dhidi yao ili watumwa wao wawateke nyara. Ndipo mtakapojua ya kwamba Bwana Mwenye Nguvu Zote amenituma.
102:10 Sef 3:14; Isa 23:12; Kut 25:8; Hes 23:21; Law 26:12; Zek 8:3; 9:9; Ufu 21:3; 2Kor 6:16“Piga kelele na ufurahie, ee Binti Sayuni, kwa maana ninakuja, nami nitaishi miongoni mwenu,” asema Bwana. 112:11 Yer 23:7; Mik 4:2; Zek 8:8, 20-22; Isa 2:2-3; Kut 12:49; Eze 33:33“Mataifa mengi yataunganishwa na Bwana siku hiyo, nao watakuwa watu wangu. Nitaishi miongoni mwenu nanyi mtajua kwamba Bwana Mwenye Nguvu Zote amenituma kwenu. 122:12 Kut 34:9; Za 33:12; Yer 10:16; 40:5; Kum 12:5; Isa 14:1; Kum 32:9Bwana atairithi Yuda kama fungu lake katika nchi takatifu na atachagua tena Yerusalemu. 132:13 Kut 14:14; Isa 41:1; Kum 26:15; Za 46:10; Hab 2:20; Rum 3:19Tulieni mbele za Bwana, enyi watu wote, kwa sababu ameinuka kutoka makao yake matakatifu.”
