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

<p class="poetry">If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">if you remove wicked behavior far from your tent,p>

<p class="poetry">Because you favor Zion, do what is good for her!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Fortify<n id="2" /> the walls of Jerusalem!<n id="3" />p>

That is why those who speak in proverbs<n id="1" /> say,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Come to Heshbon, let it be built.p> <p class="poetry">Let the city of Sihon be established!<n id="2" />p>

You must build the altar of the <sc>Lordsc> your God with whole stones and offer burnt offerings on it to the <sc>Lordsc> your God.

<p class="poetry">who commissions<n id="1" /> Cyrus, the one I appointed as shepherd<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">to carry out all my wishes<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and to decree concerning Jerusalem, &#8216;She will be rebuilt,&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">and concerning the temple, &#8216;It will be reconstructed.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

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

<p class="bodytext">If you build a new house, you must construct a guard rail<n id="1" /> around your roof to avoid being culpable<n id="2" /> in the event someone should fall from it.p>

You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape<n id="1" /> her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

&#8220;Go, tell my servant David: &#8216;This is what the <sc>Lordsc> 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.&#8217;<n id="1" />

&#8220;Go, tell my servant David: &#8216;This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says: &#8220;You must not build me a house in which to live.

But God said to me, &#8216;You must not build a temple to honor me,<n id="1" /> for you are a warrior and have spilled blood.&#8217;

But you will not build the temple; your very own son will build the temple for my honor.&#8217;<n id="1" />

I will make you a bare rock; you will be a place where fishing nets are spread. You will never be built again,<n id="1" /> for I, the <sc>Lord,sc> have spoken, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.p>

You must gather all of its plunder into the middle of the plaza<n id="1" /> and burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the <sc>Lordsc> your God. It will be an abandoned ruin<n id="2" /> forever &#8211; it must never be rebuilt again.

But the <sc>Lordsc> said to me:<n id="1" /> &#8216;You have spilled a great deal of blood and fought many battles. You must not build a temple to honor me,<n id="2" /> for you have spilled a great deal of blood on the ground before me.