When you eat your fill, when you build and occupy good houses,

If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up; ¹  if you remove wicked behavior far from your tent,

Because you favor Zion, do what is good for her! ¹  Fortify ²  the walls of Jerusalem! ³ 

That is why those who speak in proverbs ¹  say, “Come to Heshbon, let it be built. Let the city of Sihon be established! ² 

You must build the altar of the Lord your God with whole stones and offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God.

who commissions ¹  Cyrus, the one I appointed as shepherd ²  to carry out all my wishes ³  and to decree concerning Jerusalem, ‘She will be rebuilt,’ and concerning the temple, ‘It will be reconstructed.’” ⁴ 

If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it ¹  of stones shaped with tools, ²  for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it. ³ 

If you build a new house, you must construct a guard rail ¹  around your roof to avoid being culpable ²  in the event someone should fall from it.

You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape ¹  her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

“Go, tell my servant David: ‘This is what the Lord says: Do you really intend to build a house for me to live in?

But you will not build the temple; your very own son will build the temple for my honor.’ ¹ 

“Go, tell my servant David: ‘This is what the Lord says: “You must not build me a house in which to live.

But God said to me, ‘You must not build a temple to honor me, ¹  for you are a warrior and have spilled blood.’

But you will not build the temple; your very own son will build the temple for my honor.’ ¹ 

I will make you a bare rock; you will be a place where fishing nets are spread. You will never be built again, ¹  for I, the Lord, have spoken, declares the sovereign Lord.

You must gather all of its plunder into the middle of the plaza ¹  and burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It will be an abandoned ruin ²  forever – it must never be rebuilt again.

But the Lord said to me: ¹  ‘You have spilled a great deal of blood and fought many battles. You must not build a temple to honor me, ²  for you have spilled a great deal of blood on the ground before me.