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# Zechariah 2

Zechariah 2 is chapter 2 of 14 in the Book of Zechariah. Here are all 13 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Under the name of Jerusalem, he prophesieth the progress of the church of Christ, by the conversion of some Jews and many Gentiles.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Zechariah 2 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And I lifted up my eyes, and I saw, and behold, a man, and in his hand was a measuring line.
2. And I said, “Where are you going?” And he said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, so that I may see how great its width and how great its length may be.”
3. And behold, the angel, who had been speaking with me, departed, and another angel went out to meet him.
4. And he said to him: Hurry, speak to this young man, saying: Jerusalem will be inhabited without walls, because of the multitude of men and beasts of burden in its midst.
5. And I will be to it, says the Lord, a wall of fire all around. And in glory, I will be in its midst.
6. O, O flee from the land of the North, says the Lord, for I have scattered you into the four winds of heaven, says the Lord.
7. O Zion, flee, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.
8. For thus says the Lord of hosts: After the glory, he has sent me to the Gentiles, which have despoiled you. For he who touches you, touches the pupil of my eye.
9. For behold, I lift up my hand over them, and they will be a prey to those who had served them. And you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me.
10. Sing praise and rejoice, daughter of Zion. For behold, I approach, and I will dwell in your midst, says the Lord.
11. And many nations will be joined to the Lord in that day, and they will be my people, and I will dwell in your midst. And you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you.
12. And the Lord will possess his portion, Judah, in the sanctified land, and still he will single out Jerusalem.
13. Let all flesh be silent before the face of the Lord: for he has arisen from his holy dwelling place.

## Zechariah 2 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Et levavi oculos meos, et vidi, et ecce vir, et in manu ejus funiculus mensorum.
2. Et dixi: Quo tu vadis? Et dixit ad me: Ut metiar Jerusalem, et videam quanta sit latitudo ejus, et quanta longitudo ejus.
3. Et ecce angelus qui loquebatur in me egrediebatur, et angelus alius egrediebatur in occursum ejus:
4. et dixit ad eum: Curre, loquere ad puerum istum, dicens: Absque muro habitabitur Jerusalem, præ multitudine hominum et jumentorum in medio ejus.
5. Et ego ero ei, ait Dominus, murus ignis in circuitu, et in gloria ero in medio ejus.
6. O, o, fugite de terra aquilonis, dicit Dominus, quoniam in quatuor ventos cæli dispersi vos, dicit Dominus.
7. O Sion! fuge, quæ habitas apud filiam Babylonis:
8. quia hæc dicit Dominus exercituum: Post gloriam misit me ad gentes quæ spoliaverunt vos: qui enim tetigerit vos, tangit pupillam oculi mei:
9. quia ecce ego levo manum meam super eos, et erunt prædæ his qui serviebant sibi: et cognoscetis quia Dominus exercituum misit me.
10. Lauda et lætare, filia Sion, quia ecce ego venio, et habitabo in medio tui, ait Dominus.
11. Et applicabuntur gentes multæ ad Dominum in die illa, et erunt mihi in populum, et habitabo in medio tui: et scies quia Dominus exercituum misit me ad te.
12. Et possidebit Dominus Judam partem suam in terra sanctificata, et eliget adhuc Jerusalem.
13. Sileat omnis caro a facie Domini, quia consurrexit de habitaculo sancto suo.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 722: The Spirit of Christ in the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2143: The Name of the Lord is Holy ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 4: This must be understood of the spiritual Jerusalem, the church of Christ.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sat, Dec 12, 2026: Our Lady of Guadalupe — First Reading, Zechariah 2:14-17
- Sat, Sep 25, 2027 (computed): Saturday of the Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Zechariah 2:5-9, 14-15a
- Tue, Dec 12, 2028 (computed): Our Lady of Guadalupe — First Reading, Zechariah 2:14-17

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).