In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.
Parallel translations
- WEB A day to build your walls — In that day, he will extend your boundary.
- BSB The day for rebuilding your walls will come—the day for extending your boundary.
- 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 a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
- Amos 9:11–15In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
- Neh 2:17Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
- Ezra 4:12–24Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations.
- Neh 4:6So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
- Isa 54:11O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
- Neh 4:3Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
- Neh 3:1–16Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.
- Dan 9:25Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
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