Zechariah 2:5
Good News Translation
The LORD has promised that he himself will be a wall of fire around the city to protect it and that he will live there in all his glory."

New Revised Standard Version
For I will be a wall of fire all around it, says the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.”

Contemporary English Version
The LORD himself has promised to be a protective wall of fire surrounding Jerusalem, and he will be its shining glory in the heart of the city."

New American Bible
I will be an encircling wall of fire for it—oracle of the LORD—and I will be the glory in its midst.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will be to it, saith the Lord, a wall of fire round about: and I will be in glory in the midst thereof.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I will be to it, saith the Lord, a wall of fire round about: and I will be in glory in the midst thereof.

a wall.

Zechariah 9:8 And I will encompass my house with them that serve me in war, going and returning, and the oppressor shall no more pass through them: for now I have seen with my eyes.

Psalm 46:7-11 The Lord of armies is with us: the God of Jacob is our protector. . . .

Psalm 48:3,12 In her houses shall God be known, when he shall protect her. . . .

Isaiah 4:5 And the Lord will create upon every place of mount Sion, and where he is called upon, a cloud by day, and a smoke and the brightness of a flaming fire in the night: for over all the glory shall be a protection.

Isaiah 12:6 Rejoice, and praise, O thou habitation of Sion: for great is he that is in the midst of thee, the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 26:1,2 In that day shall this canticle be sung in the land of Juda. Sion the city of our strength a saviour, a wall and a bulwark shall be set therein. . . .

Isaiah 33:21 Because only there our Lord is magnificent: a place of rivers, very broad and spacious streams: no ship with oars shall pass by it, neither shall the great galley pass through it.

Isaiah 60:18,19 Iniquity shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction in thy borders, and salvation shall possess thy walls, and praise thy gates. . . .

the glory.

Psalm 3:3 But thou, O Lord, art my protector, my glory, and the lifter up of my head.

Isaiah 60:19 Thou shalt no more have the sun for thy light by day, neither shall the brightness of the moon enlighten thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee for an everlasting light, and thy God for thy glory.

Haggai 2:7-9 And I will move all nations: AND THE DESIRED OF ALL NATIONS SHALL COME: and I will fill this house with glory: saith the Lord of hosts. . . .

Luke 2:32 A light to the revelation of the Gentiles and the glory of thy people Israel.

Revelation 21:10,11,23 And he took me up in spirit to a great and high mountain: and he shewed me the holy city Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, . . .

Revelation 22:3-5 And there shall be no curse any more: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it. And his servants shall serve him. . . .

Context
The Vision of the Measuring Line
4And he said to him: Run, speak to this young man, saying: Jerusalem shall be inhabited without walls, by reason of the multitude of men, and of the beasts in the midst thereof. 5And I will be to it, saith the Lord, a wall of fire round about: and I will be in glory in the midst thereof.
Cross References
Psalm 46:5
God is in the midst thereof, it shall not be moved: God will help it in the morning early.

Psalm 85:9
Surely his salvation is near to them that fear him : that glory may dwell in our land.

Psalm 125:2
In Jerusalem. Mountains are round about it: so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth now and for ever.

Isaiah 4:5
And the Lord will create upon every place of mount Sion, and where he is called upon, a cloud by day, and a smoke and the brightness of a flaming fire in the night: for over all the glory shall be a protection.

Isaiah 12:6
Rejoice, and praise, O thou habitation of Sion: for great is he that is in the midst of thee, the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 26:1
In that day shall this canticle be sung in the land of Juda. Sion the city of our strength a saviour, a wall and a bulwark shall be set therein.

Isaiah 31:9
And his strength shall pass away with dread, and his princes fleeing shall be afraid: the Lord hath said it, whose fire is in Sion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 32:18
And my people shall sit in the beauty of peace, and in the tabernacles of confidence, and in wealthy rest.

Isaiah 60:18
Iniquity shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction in thy borders, and salvation shall possess thy walls, and praise thy gates.

Isaiah 60:19
Thou shalt no more have the sun for thy light by day, neither shall the brightness of the moon enlighten thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee for an everlasting light, and thy God for thy glory.

Ezekiel 38:14
Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy and say to Gog: Thus saith the Lord God: Shalt thou not know, in that day, when my people of Israel shall dwell securely?

Ezekiel 42:20
By the four winds he measured the wall thereof on every side round about, five hundred cubits and five hundred cubits broad, making a separation between the sanctuary and the place of the people.

Haggai 2:9
Great shall be the glory of this last house more than of the first, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place I will give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.

Zechariah 2:10
Sing praise, and rejoice, O daughter of Sion: for behold I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee: saith the Lord.

Zechariah 2:11
And many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day, and they shall be my people, and I will dwell in the midst of thee: and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me to thee.

Zechariah 9:14
And the Lord God shall be seen over them, and his dart shall go forth as lightning: and the Lord God will sound the trumpet, and go in the whirlwind of the south.

Zechariah 2:4
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