Then the heads of the families of Judah and Benjamin and the priests and the Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—got ready to go up and rebuild the house of the Lord in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 49:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Your builders outdo your destroyers, and those who laid you waste go away from you. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Your children and your builders make haste; your destroyers and those who laid you waste go forth from you. American Standard Version (1901) Thy children make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee. Common English Bible Your builders come quickly; those who destroy and demolish you will depart from you. Catholic Public Domain Version Your builders have arrived. Those who would tear you down and destroy you, they will depart from you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thy builders are come: they that destroy thee and make thee waste shall go out of thee. |
Then the heads of the families of Judah and Benjamin and the priests and the Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—got ready to go up and rebuild the house of the Lord in Jerusalem.
Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer suffer disgrace.”
For there our captors asked us for songs, and our tormentors asked for mirth, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands
For your wastelands, your desolate places, and your devastated land— now you will be too crowded for your inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.
You have forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You fear continually all day long because of the fury of the oppressor, who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor?
Lift up your eyes and look around; they all gather together; they come to you; your sons shall come from far away, and your daughters shall be carried in their nurses’ arms.
For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your builder marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
The house of Israel shall no longer find a pricking brier or a piercing thorn among all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. And they shall know that I am the Lord God.
and I will multiply your population, the whole house of Israel, all of it; the towns shall be inhabited and the waste places rebuilt,