Zechariah 2:5-7

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁵ For I will be a wall of fire all round it, says the Lord, and I will be the glory within it.’

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. ⁷ Up! Escape to Zion, you that live with daughter Babylon.