<p class="lamhebrew">&#1490; (<i>Gimeli>)p> <p class="poetry">He has walled me in<n id="1" /> so that I cannot get out;p> <p class="poetry">he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He has blocked<n id="1" /> every road I take<n id="2" /> with a wall of hewn stones;p> <p class="poetry">he has made every path impassable.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">He has blocked<n id="1" /> my way so I cannot pass,p> <p class="poetry">and has set darkness<n id="2" /> over my paths.p>

including craftsmen, builders, and masons, and should buy wood and chiseled stone for the repair work.<n id="1" />

You have not gone up in the breaks in the wall, nor repaired a wall for the house of Israel that it would stand strong in the battle on the day of the <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="poetry">Your perpetual ruins will be rebuilt;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you will reestablish the ancient foundations.p> <p class="poetry">You will be called, &#8216;The one who repairs broken walls,p> <p class="poetry">the one who makes the streets inhabitable again.&#8217;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I looked for a man from among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="poetry">Therefore, I will soon<n id="1" /> fence her in<n id="2" /> with thorns;p> <p class="poetry">I will wall her in<n id="3" /> so that<n id="4" /> she cannot find her way.<n id="5" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;In that day I will rebuild the collapsing hut<n id="1" /> of David.p> <p class="poetry">I will seal its<n id="2" /> gaps,p> <p class="poetry">repair its<n id="3" /> ruins,p> <p class="poetry">and restore it to what it was like in days gone by.<n id="4" />p>

as well as masons and stonecutters. They bought wood and chiseled stone to repair the damage to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple and also paid for all the other expenses.<n id="1" />