Zechariah 2:4-6

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⁴ and said to him, “Run, say to that young man: Jerusalem shall be inhabited like unwalled villages because of the multitude of people and animals in it.^{(A) 5} For I will be a wall of fire all around it, says the Lord, and I will be the glory within it.”^(B)

Interlude: An Appeal to the Exiles

⁶ Up, up! Flee from the land of the north, says the Lord, for I have spread you abroad like the four winds of heaven, says the Lord.^(C)