The day for rebuilding your walls will come—the day for extending your boundary.
Parallel translations
- WEB A day to build your walls — In that day, he will extend your boundary.
- KJV In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.
- NKJV In the day when your walls are to be built, In that day the decree shall go far and wide.
- NASB It will be a day for building your walls. On that day your boundary will be extended.
- NLT In that day, Israel, your cities will be rebuilt, and your borders will be extended.
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Quick answer
A coming day will see the city's walls rebuilt and its boundaries extended. It promises future restoration and enlargement for God's people.
Overview
Looking beyond judgment, the prophet foresees a day of rebuilding broken walls and expanding borders. This pledges the restoration of what sin and exile had ruined. Such promised renewal and expansion ultimately point to the growth of God's kingdom, gathered from many nations through the gospel.
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- Neh 2:8And may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the king’s forest, so that he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel to the temple, for the city wall, and for the house I will occupy.” And because the gracious hand of my God was upon me, the king granted my requests.
- Amos 9:11–15“In that day I will restore the fallen tent of David. I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old,
- 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.”
- Ezra 4:12–24Let it be known to the king that the Jews who came from you to us have returned to Jerusalem. And they are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city, restoring its walls, and repairing its foundations.
- Neh 4:6So we rebuilt the wall until all of it was joined together up to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.
- Isa 54:11“O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.
- Neh 4:3Then Tobiah the Ammonite, who was beside him, said, “If even a fox were to climb up on what they are building, it would break down their wall of stones!”
- Neh 3:1–16At the Sheep Gate, Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests began rebuilding. They dedicated it and installed its doors. After building as far as the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel, they dedicated the wall.
- Dan 9:25Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.
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