Bible Verses About Rebuilding after a crisis

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

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the Lord.

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.

For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.

For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king’s words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work.

Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.

For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord answered me, and set me in a large place.

Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.

But when they in their trouble did turn unto the Lord God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.

Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the Lord build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it.

Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:

Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;

If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.

Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the Lord our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

Then had the churches rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.

But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.

Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:

Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.

For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the Lord.

Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.

And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.

Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.

But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.