He who talked to me had a golden wand by way of a measuring-rod, to measure the City and its gates and wall;

And I was given a reed like a rod, and told, "Rise up and measure the temple of God and the altar, numbering the worshippers;

but omit the court outside the temple, do not measure that, for it has been given over to the Gentiles; and the city will be under their heel for two and forty months.

As she gloried and played the wanton, so give her like measure of torture and tears. Since in her heart she vaunts, 'A queen I sit, no widow I, tears I shall never know,'

the City lies foursquare, the length the same as the breadth, and he measured fifteen hundred miles with his rod for the City, for its breadth and length and height alike;

he made the measure of the wall seventy-two yards, by human, that is, by angelic reckoning.