In that day, Israel, your cities will be rebuilt, and your borders will be extended.
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.
- 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.
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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 to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple, for the wall of the city, and for the house that I will occupy.” The king granted my requests, because of the good hand of my God on me.
- Amos 9:11–15In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;
- Neh 2:17Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won’t be disgraced.”
- Ezra 4:12–24Be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you have come to us to Jerusalem. They are building the rebellious and bad city, and have finished the walls, and repaired the foundations.
- Neh 4:6So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height: for the people had a mind to work.
- Isa 54:11“You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
- Neh 4:3Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.”
- Neh 3:1–16Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate. They sanctified it, and set up its doors. They sanctified it even to the tower of Hammeah, to the tower of Hananel.
- Dan 9:25Know therefore and discern, that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.
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