And the dung gate repaired Malchijah the son of Rechab, the ruler of the district of Beth-haccherem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the bolts thereof, and the bars thereof.

And the fountain gate repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the bolts thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, even unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.

So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto half the height thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.

Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,

and in Jeshua, and in Moladah, and Beth-pelet,

of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;

With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;

Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

He poureth contempt upon princes, And looseth the belt of the strong.

O earth, cover not thou my blood, And let my cry have no resting -place.

If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; He hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, If thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.

Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone.

Her young ones also suck up blood: And where the slain are, there is she.

Thou wilt destroy them that speak lies: Jehovah abhorreth the blood-thirsty and deceitful man.

For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth them; He forgetteth not the cry of the poor.

Their sorrows shall be multiplied that give gifts for another god : Their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer, Nor take their names upon my lips.

Gather not my soul with sinners, Nor my life with men of blood;

Because they regard not the works of Jehovah, Nor the operation of his hands, He will break them down and not build them up.

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Hide thy face from my sins, And blot out all mine iniquities.

Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: Build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;

That thou mayest crush them , dipping thy foot in blood, That the tongue of thy dogs may have its portion from thine enemies.

For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah; And they shall abide there, and have it in possession.

He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence; And precious will their blood be in his sight:

Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: Remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day.

And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink.

And he built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he hath established for ever.

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them.

Wherefore should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed Be known among the nations in our sight.

For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever; Thy faithfulness wilt thou establish in the very heavens.

Thy seed will I establish for ever, And build up thy throne to all generations. Selah

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.

For Jehovah hath built up Zion; He hath appeared in his glory.

He turned their waters into blood, And slew their fish.

And shed innocent blood, Even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with blood.

Plead thou my cause, and redeem me: Quicken me according to thy word.

Except Jehovah build the house, They labor in vain that build it: Except Jehovah keep the city, The watchman waketh but in vain.

Jehovah doth build up Jerusalem; He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.

If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;

For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.

And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;

He that correcteth a scoffer getteth to himself reviling; And he that reproveth a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

The words of the wicked are of lying in wait for blood; But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

For Jehovah will plead their cause, And despoil of life those that despoil them.

For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against thee.

Prepare thy work without, And make it ready for thee in the field; And afterwards build thy house.

The wicked flee when no man pursueth; But the righteous are bold as a lion.

A man that is laden with the blood of any person Shall flee unto the pit; let no man stay him.

For the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, And the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood; So the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.

a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

I rose up to open to my beloved; And my hands droppeth with myrrh, And my fingers with liquid myrrh, Upon the handles of the bolt.

If she be a wall, We will build upon her a turret of silver: And if she be a door, We will inclose her with boards of cedar.

What unto me is the multitude of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah: I have had enough of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.

And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning.

and he digged it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

For all the armor of the armed man in the tumult, and the garments rolled in blood, shall be for burning, for fuel of fire.

The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycomores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.

For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet more upon Dimon, a lion upon them of Moab that escape, and upon the remnant of the land.

For thou hast made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

For, behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from taking a bribe, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from looking upon evil:

Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall come up; and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls: and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: set thou forth thy cause , that thou mayest be justified.

that confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith of Jerusalem, She shall be inhabited; and of the cities of Judah, They shall be built, and I will raise up the waste places thereof;

That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure, even saying of Jerusalem, She shall be built; and of the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.

I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward, saith Jehovah of hosts.

And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I, Jehovah, am thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places; thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness.

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

And foreigners shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favor have I had mercy on thee.

And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

Thus saith Jehovah, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what manner of house will ye build unto me? and what place shall be my rest?

He that killeth an ox is as he that slayeth a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as he that breaketh a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as he that offereth'swine's blood; he that burneth frankincense, as he that blesseth an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations:

see, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.

Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: thou didst not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.

They are waxed fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

if ye oppress not the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded not, neither came it into my mind.

And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, As Jehovah liveth; even as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built up in the midst of my people.

Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them;

And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

Yet, Jehovah, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight; but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thou with them in the time of thine anger.

Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, that they knew not, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt-offerings unto Baal; which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind: