Bible Verses About Reconstruction

And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.

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.

And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.

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.

Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

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

See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.

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

And I will be found of you, saith the Lord: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying,

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:

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

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:

Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee.

But, The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.

And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

The Lord doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.

Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.

Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.

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

And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

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

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

And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying,

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying,

For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the Lord shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.

When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.