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.”
Micah 7:11 - Tree of Life Version A day to rebuild your walls— a day the boundary will be far off, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition In the day that your walls are to be built [a day for building], in that day shall the boundary [of Israel] be far extended and the decree [against her] be far removed. [Isa. 33:17; Amos 9:11.] American Standard Version (1901) A day for building thy walls! in that day shall the decree be far removed. Common English Bible A day for the building of your walls! On that day, the boundary will be distant. Catholic Public Domain Version The day that your walls will be rebuilt, in that day the law will be far away. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The day shall come, that thy walls may be built up: in that day shall the law be far removed. |
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.”
as well as a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king’s forest so he will give me lumber to make beams for the gates of the fortress adjacent to the Temple, for the wall of the city and for the residence I will occupy.” The king granted me the requests because the good hand of my God was upon me.
But we prayed to our God and stationed a guard against them day and night.
So it happened that the Jews living near them came and told us ten times over, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us!”
Afflicted one, storm-tossed, unconsoled, behold, I set your stones in antimony, lay your foundations with sapphires,
“Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch out your tabernacle curtains. Do not hold back— lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes.
Some of you will rebuild the ancient ruins, will raise up the age-old foundations, will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Streets for Dwelling.
They will rebuild the ancient ruins. They will restore former desolations. They will repair the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.
So know and understand: From the issuing of the decree to restore and to build Jerusalem until the time Mashiach, the Prince, there shall be seven weeks and 62 weeks. It will be rebuilt, with plaza and moat, but it will be in times of distress.