Zechariah 2:2-4

Common English Bible

² I said, “Where are you going?”
He said to me,
    “To measure Jerusalem to see how wide and long it will be.”
³ As I watched, the messenger speaking with me went ahead and another messenger came to meet him.
⁴ He said to him,
    “Run! Say to this young man:
        Jerusalem will be inhabited like open fields
            because of the throngs of people and cattle inside it.