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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape 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.’

“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, 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.’

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

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

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