So the patriarchal leaders of Judah and Benjamin, along with the kohanim and the Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred up—arose to go up to build the House of Adonai in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 49:17 - Tree of Life Version Your children will come quickly. Your destroyers and devastators will go away from you. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
So the patriarchal leaders of Judah and Benjamin, along with the kohanim and the Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred up—arose to go up to build the House of Adonai in Jerusalem.
Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation we are in: Jerusalem is desolate and its gates have been burnt. Come! Let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”
For there our captors demanded songs and our tormentors asked for joy: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”
I am sending it against an ungodly nation, and against the people of My fury I am commissioning it, to take spoil and plunder, to trample them down like mud in the streets.
It is true, Adonai, the kings of Assyria have devastated all the countries and their lands,
For your waste and desolate places and your destroyed land will now be surely too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.
But you forgot Adonai your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. Are you in constant dread all day because of the fury of the oppressor as he makes ready to destroy? But where is the fury of the oppressor?
Lift up your eyes and look all around: they all gather—they come to you— your sons will come from far away, your daughters carried on the hip.
For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over a bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
“Never again will there be a briar pricking at the house of Israel or a piercing thorn from any around them who scorn them. They will know that I am the Lord Adonai.”
I will settle a large population upon you—the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities will be inhabited. The desolate places will be built up.