Psalm 102:14
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14 For your servants hold her (A)stones dear
and have pity on her dust.
Nehemiah 4:2
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2 And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of (A)Samaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves?[a] Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?”
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- Nehemiah 4:2 Or Will they commit themselves to God?
Psalm 137:5-6
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5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
(A)let my right hand forget its skill!
6 Let my (B)tongue stick to the roof of my mouth,
if I do not remember you,
if I do not set Jerusalem
above my highest joy!
Psalm 79:7-10
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7 For they have devoured Jacob
and laid waste his habitation.
8 (A)Do not remember against us (B)our former iniquities;[a]
let your compassion come speedily to meet us,
for we are (C)brought very low.
9 (D)Help us, O God of our salvation,
for the glory of your name;
deliver us, and (E)atone for our sins,
for your (F)name's sake!
10 (G)Why should the nations say,
“Where is their God?”
Let (H)the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants
be known among the nations before our eyes!
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- Psalm 79:8 Or the iniquities of former generations
Nehemiah 4:10
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10 In Judah it was said,[a] “The strength of those who bear the burdens is failing. There is too much rubble. By ourselves we will not be able to rebuild the wall.”
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- Nehemiah 4:10 Hebrew Judah said
Nehemiah 4:6
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6 So we built the wall. And all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.
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Nehemiah 2:17
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17 Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, (A)how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer (B)suffer derision.”
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Nehemiah 2:3
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3 I said to the king, (A)“Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, (B)when the city, the place of my fathers' graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”
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Nehemiah 1:3
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3 And they said to me, “The remnant there in the province who had survived the exile is in great trouble and (A)shame. (B)The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, (C)and its gates are destroyed by fire.”
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Ezra 7:27
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27 (A)Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, (B)who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem,
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Ezra 3:1-3
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Rebuilding the Altar
3 (A)When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem. 2 Then arose Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and (B)Zerubbabel the son of (C)Shealtiel with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, (D)as it is written in the Law of Moses the (E)man of God. 3 They set the altar in its place, (F)for fear was on them because of the peoples of the lands, and (G)they offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord, burnt offerings morning and evening.
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Ezra 1:5
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5 Then rose up the heads of the fathers' houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, (A)everyone whose spirit (B)God had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem.
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Daniel 9:16
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16 “O Lord, (A)according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, (B)your holy hill, (C)because for our sins, and for (D)the iniquities of our fathers, (E)Jerusalem and your people have become (F)a byword among all who are around us.
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