Psalm 147:13
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13 For he strengthens the bars of your gates;
he blesses your children within you.
Psalm 128:3-6
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3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
within your house;
your children will be like olive shoots
around your table.(A)
4 Thus shall the man be blessed
who fears the Lord.
5 The Lord bless you from Zion.
May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem
all the days of your life.(B)
6 May you see your children’s children.
Peace be upon Israel!(C)
Isaiah 44:3-5
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3 For I will pour water on the thirsty land
and streams on the dry ground;
I will pour my spirit upon your descendants
and my blessing on your offspring.(A)
4 They shall spring up like a green tamarisk,[a]
like willows by flowing streams.
5 This one will say, “I am the Lord’s”;
another will be called by the name of Jacob;
yet another will write on the hand, “The Lord’s,”
and adopt the name of Israel.(B)
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- 44.4 Q ms: MT in the midst of grass
Psalm 115:14-15
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14 May the Lord give you increase,
both you and your children.(A)
15 May you be blessed by the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.(B)
Jeremiah 30:19-20
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19 Out of them shall come thanksgiving
and the sound of merrymakers.
I will make them many, and they shall not be few;
I will make them honored, and they shall not be disdained.(A)
20 Their children shall be as of old;
their congregation shall be established before me,
and I will punish all who oppress them.
Psalm 144:12
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12 May our sons in their youth
be like plants full grown,
our daughters like corner pillars,
cut for the building of a palace.(A)
Psalm 125:2
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2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
so the Lord surrounds his people
from this time on and forevermore.(A)
Zechariah 8:3-5
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3 Thus says the Lord: I will return to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts shall be called the holy mountain.(A) 4 Thus says the Lord of hosts: Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of their great age.(B) 5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.(C)
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Lamentations 2:8-9
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8 The Lord determined to lay in ruins
the wall of daughter Zion;
he stretched the line;
he did not withhold his hand from destroying;
he caused rampart and wall to lament;
they languish together.(A)
9 Her gates have sunk into the ground;
he has ruined and broken her bars;
her king and princes are among the nations;
guidance is no more,
and her prophets obtain
no vision from the Lord.(B)
Nehemiah 12:30
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30 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and they purified the people and the gates and the wall.(A)
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Nehemiah 3:1-16
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Organization of the Work
3 Then the high priest Eliashib set to work with his fellow priests and rebuilt the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set up its doors; they consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred and as far as the Tower of Hananel.(A) 2 And the men of Jericho built next to him. And next to them[a] Zaccur son of Imri built.(B)
3 The sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate; they laid its beams and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.(C) 4 Next to them Meremoth son of Uriah son of Hakkoz made repairs. Next to them Meshullam son of Berechiah son of Meshezabel made repairs. Next to them Zadok son of Baana made repairs. 5 Next to them the Tekoites made repairs, but their nobles would not put their shoulders to the work of their Lord.[b]
6 Joiada son of Paseah and Meshullam son of Besodeiah repaired the Old Gate; they laid its beams and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.(D) 7 Next to them repairs were made by Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite—the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah—who were under the jurisdiction of[c] the governor of the province Beyond the River.(E) 8 Next to them Uzziel son of Harhaiah, one of the goldsmiths, made repairs. Next to him Hananiah, one of the perfumers, made repairs, and they restored Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall.(F) 9 Next to them Rephaiah son of Hur, ruler of half the district of[d] Jerusalem, made repairs.(G) 10 Next to them Jedaiah son of Harumaph made repairs opposite his house, and next to him Hattush son of Hashabneiah made repairs. 11 Malchijah son of Harim and Hasshub son of Pahath-moab repaired another section and the Tower of the Ovens.(H) 12 Next to him Shallum son of Hallohesh, ruler of half the district of[e] Jerusalem, made repairs, he and his daughters.(I)
13 Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the Valley Gate; they rebuilt it and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars and repaired a thousand cubits of the wall, as far as the Dung Gate.(J)
14 Malchijah son of Rechab, ruler of the district of[f] Beth-haccherem, repaired the Dung Gate; he rebuilt it and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.
15 And Shallum son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of[g] Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate; he rebuilt it and covered it and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and he built the wall of the Pool of Shelah of the King’s Garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the city of David.(K) 16 After him Nehemiah son of Azbuk, ruler of half the district of[h] Beth-zur, repaired from a point opposite the graves of David, as far as the artificial pool and the House of the Warriors.(L)
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Psalm 48:11-14
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12 Walk about Zion; go all around it;
count its towers;
13 consider well its ramparts;
go through its citadels,
that you may tell the next generation(B)
14 that this is God,
our God forever and ever.
He will be our guide forever.(C)
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- 48.11 Heb daughters
Nehemiah 7:1
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7 Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,(A)
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