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11 [a]It is the day for building your walls;
    on that day your boundaries shall be enlarged.
12 It is the day when those from Assyria to Egypt
    shall come to you,
And from Tyre even to the River,
    from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain;(A)
13 And the earth shall be a waste
    because of its inhabitants,
    as a result of their deeds.

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Footnotes

  1. 7:11–13 An announcement of salvation to Zion. The walls of Jerusalem will be rebuilt, its inhabitants who are now scattered from Assyria to Egypt shall return, but the other peoples will suffer for their evil deeds.

11 The day for building your walls(A) will come,
    the day for extending your boundaries.
12 In that day people will come to you
    from Assyria(B) and the cities of Egypt,
even from Egypt to the Euphrates
    and from sea to sea
    and from mountain to mountain.(C)
13 The earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants,
    as the result of their deeds.(D)

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