Your builders hasten back; your destroyers and wreckers depart from you.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your children hurry. Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you.
- KJV Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
- NKJV Your sons shall make haste; Your destroyers and those who laid you waste Shall go away from you.
- NASB “Your builders hurry; Your destroyers and devastators Will leave you.
- NLT Soon your descendants will come back, and all who are trying to destroy you will go away.
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Quick answer
Zion's children hurry back while her destroyers depart, signaling the reversal of her desolation.
Overview
The same God who remembers Zion now acts: her builders or children return swiftly while those who tore her down leave. The city's fortunes are reversed. This rebuilding of God's people prefigures the gathering and growth of the church, the Zion God raises up through Christ (Hebrews 12:22).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Isa 51:13But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in terror all day long because of the fury of the oppressor who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor?
- Isa 62:5For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
- Ezek 28:24For the people of Israel will no longer face a pricking brier or a painful thorn from all around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.’
- Isa 51:22–23Thus says your Lord, the LORD, even your God, who defends His people: “See, I have removed from your hand the cup of staggering. From that goblet, the cup of My fury, you will never drink again.
- Isa 51:18–20Among all the sons she bore, there is no one to guide her; among all the sons she brought up, there is no one to take her hand.
- Isa 49:19For your ruined and desolate places and your ravaged land will now indeed be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.
- Neh 2:4–9“What is your request?” replied the king. So I prayed to the God of heaven
- Isa 10:6I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
- Ezra 1:5So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—prepared to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.
- Neh 2:17Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned down. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”
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Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).
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