Ezekiel 40:1-3

1In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been captured, on that very day the Lord’s hand was on me, and he brought me there.

2In visions of God he took me to the land of Israel and set me down on a very high mountain. On its southern slope was a structure resembling a city.

3He brought me there, and I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand. He was standing by the city gate.