So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.
Psalm 147:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The Lord builds up Jerusalem; he gathers the outcasts of Israel. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The Lord is building up Jerusalem; He is gathering together the exiles of Israel. American Standard Version (1901) Jehovah doth build up Jerusalem; He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. Common English Bible The LORD rebuilds Jerusalem, gathering up Israel’s exiles. Catholic Public Domain Version For he has reinforced the bars of your gates. He has blessed your sons within you. |
So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.
And when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations around us were afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem, for they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.
The city was wide and large, but the people within it were few, and no houses had been built.
He will regard the prayer of the destitute and will not despise their prayer.
What will one answer the messengers of the nation? “The Lord has founded Zion, and the needy among his people will find refuge in her.”
And on that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
Thus says the Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel: I will gather others to them besides those already gathered.
and give him no rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it renowned throughout the earth.
Hear the word of the Lord, O nations, and declare it in the coastlands far away; say, “He who scattered Israel will gather him and will keep him as a shepherd does a flock.”
Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel! Again you shall adorn yourself with your tambourines and go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.
See, I am going to gather them from all the lands to which I drove them in my anger and my wrath and in great indignation; I will bring them back to this place, and I will settle them in safety.
After many days you shall be mustered; in the latter years you shall go against a land restored from war, a land where people were gathered from many nations on the mountains of Israel, which had long lain waste; its people were brought out from the nations and now are living in safety, all of them.
Know therefore and understand: from the time that the word went out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the time of an anointed prince, there shall be seven weeks, and for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with streets and moat, but in a troubled time.
On that day, says the Lord, I will assemble the lame and gather those who have been driven away and those whom I have afflicted.
Thus says the Lord of hosts: I will save my people from the east country and from the west country,
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
then the Lord your God will return you from your captivity and have compassion on you, gathering you again from all the peoples among whom the Lord your God has scattered you.