48:11 Mount Zion rejoices;
the towns 1 of Judah are happy, 2
because of your acts of judgment. 3
48:12 Walk around 4 Zion! Encircle it!
Count its towers!
48:13 Consider its defenses! 5
Walk through 6 its fortresses,
so you can tell the next generation about it! 7
48:14 For God, our God, is our defender forever! 8
He guides 9 us! 10
51:18 Because you favor Zion, do what is good for her! 11
Fortify 12 the walls of Jerusalem! 13
125:2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, 14
so the Lord surrounds his people,
now and forevermore.
3:1 Then Eliashib the high priest and his priestly colleagues 15 arose and built the Sheep Gate. They dedicated 16 it and erected its doors, working as far as the Tower of the Hundred 17 and 18 the Tower of Hananel. 3:2 The men of Jericho 19 built adjacent to it, and Zaccur son of Imri built adjacent to them. 20
3:3 The sons of Hassenaah rebuilt the Fish Gate. They laid its beams and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars. 3:4 Meremoth son of Uriah, the son of Hakoz, worked on the section adjacent to them. Meshullam son of Berechiah the son of Meshezabel worked on the section next to them. And Zadok son of Baana worked on the section adjacent to them. 3:5 The men of Tekoa worked on the section adjacent to them, but their town leaders 21 would not assist 22 with the work of their master. 23
3:6 Joiada son of Paseah and Meshullam son of Besodeiah worked on the Jeshanah Gate. 24 They laid its beams and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars. 3:7 Adjacent to them worked Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite, who were men of Gibeon and Mizpah. These towns were under the jurisdiction 25 of the governor of Trans-Euphrates. 3:8 Uzziel son of Harhaiah, a member of the goldsmiths’ guild, worked on the section adjacent to him. Hananiah, a member of the perfumers’ guild, worked on the section adjacent to him. They plastered 26 the city wall of Jerusalem 27 as far as the Broad Wall. 3:9 Rephaiah son of Hur, head of a half-district of Jerusalem, worked on the section adjacent to them. 3:10 Jedaiah son of Harumaph worked on the section adjacent to them opposite 28 his house, and Hattush son of Hashabneiah worked on the section adjacent to him. 3:11 Malkijah son of Harim and Hasshub son of Pahath-Moab worked on another section and the Tower of the Fire Pots. 3:12 Shallum son of Hallohesh, head of a half-district of Jerusalem, worked on the section adjacent to him, assisted by his daughters. 29
3:13 Hanun and the residents of Zanoah worked on the Valley Gate. They rebuilt it and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars, in addition to working on fifteen hundred feet 30 of the wall as far as the Dung Gate.
3:14 Malkijah son of Recab, head of the district of Beth Hakkerem, worked on the Dung Gate. He rebuilt it and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars.
3:15 Shallun son of Col-Hozeh, head of the district of Mizpah, worked on the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it, put on its roof, and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars. In addition, he rebuilt the wall of the Pool of Siloam, 31 by the royal garden, as far as the steps that go down from the City of David. 3:16 Nehemiah son of Azbuk, head of a half-district of Beth Zur, worked after him as far as the tombs of David and the artificial pool and the House of the Warriors.
6:1 When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and no breach remained in it (even though up to that time I had not positioned doors in the gates),
7:1 When the wall had been rebuilt and I had positioned the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,
ח (Khet)
2:8 The Lord was determined to tear down
Daughter Zion’s wall.
He prepared to knock it down; 32
he did not withdraw his hand from destroying. 33
He made the ramparts and fortified walls lament;
together they mourned their ruin. 34
ט (Tet)
2:9 Her city gates have fallen 35 to the ground;
he smashed to bits 36 the bars that lock her gates. 37
Her king and princes were taken into exile; 38
there is no more guidance available. 39
As for her prophets,
they no longer receive 40 a vision from the Lord.
ל (Lamed)
4:12 Neither the kings of the earth
nor the people of the lands 41 ever thought 42
that enemy or foe would enter
the gates 43 of Jerusalem. 44
9:25 So know and understand:
From the issuing of the command 45 to restore and rebuild
Jerusalem 46 until an anointed one, a prince arrives, 47
there will be a period of seven weeks 48 and sixty-two weeks.
It will again be built, 49 with plaza and moat,
but in distressful times.