Ezra 9:9
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Ezra 9:9
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9 For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
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Psalm 51:18
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Psalm 51:18
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18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
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Isaiah 49:8-21
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Restoration of Israel
8 This is what the Lord says:
“In the time of my favor(A) I will answer you,
and in the day of salvation I will help you;(B)
I will keep(C) you and will make you
to be a covenant for the people,(D)
to restore the land(E)
and to reassign its desolate inheritances,(F)
9 to say to the captives,(G) ‘Come out,’
and to those in darkness,(H) ‘Be free!’
“They will feed beside the roads
and find pasture on every barren hill.(I)
10 They will neither hunger nor thirst,(J)
nor will the desert heat or the sun beat down on them.(K)
He who has compassion(L) on them will guide(M) them
and lead them beside springs(N) of water.
11 I will turn all my mountains into roads,
and my highways(O) will be raised up.(P)
12 See, they will come from afar(Q)—
some from the north, some from the west,(R)
some from the region of Aswan.[a]”
13 Shout for joy,(S) you heavens;
rejoice, you earth;(T)
burst into song, you mountains!(U)
For the Lord comforts(V) his people
and will have compassion(W) on his afflicted ones.(X)
15 “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast
and have no compassion on the child(AA) she has borne?
Though she may forget,
I will not forget you!(AB)
16 See, I have engraved(AC) you on the palms of my hands;
your walls(AD) are ever before me.
17 Your children hasten back,
and those who laid you waste(AE) depart from you.
18 Lift up your eyes and look around;
all your children gather(AF) and come to you.
As surely as I live,(AG)” declares the Lord,
“you will wear(AH) them all as ornaments;
you will put them on, like a bride.
19 “Though you were ruined and made desolate(AI)
and your land laid waste,(AJ)
now you will be too small for your people,(AK)
and those who devoured(AL) you will be far away.
20 The children born during your bereavement
will yet say in your hearing,
‘This place is too small for us;
give us more space to live in.’(AM)
21 Then you will say in your heart,
‘Who bore me these?(AN)
I was bereaved(AO) and barren;
I was exiled and rejected.(AP)
Who brought these(AQ) up?
I was left(AR) all alone,(AS)
but these—where have they come from?’”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 49:12 Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text Sinim
Isaiah 49:8-21
King James Version
8 Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
9 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
12 Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
14 But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.
15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
17 Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.
19 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
20 The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?
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Isaiah 61:4
New International Version
4 They will rebuild the ancient ruins(A)
and restore the places long devastated;
they will renew the ruined cities
that have been devastated for generations.
Isaiah 61:4
King James Version
4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
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