2I asked, "Where are you going?" He answered me, "To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is."


In Context

1 Then I looked up-and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand!

2 I asked, "Where are you going?" He answered me, "To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is."

3 Then the angel who was speaking to me left, and another angel came to meet him

4 and said to him: "Run, tell that young man, 'Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the great number of men and livestock in it.

Zechariah 2:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:2Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what [is] the breadth thereof, and what [is] the length thereof.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:2And I said: Whither goest thou? and he said to me: To measure Jerusalem, and to see how great is the breadth thereof, and how great the length thereof.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:2Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:2And I said, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:2Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:2Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth, and what is its length.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:2Then I asked, |Where are you going?| He said to me, |To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth and what is its length.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:2And I say, 'Whither are thou going?' And he saith unto me, 'To measure Jerusalem, to see how much is its breadth, and how much its length.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:2Then said I, Where go you? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.