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A day for building your walls! in that day shall the decree be far removed.
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A Promise of Rebuilding
Commentators emphasize that this verse is a powerful promise of hope. After a period of ruin and judgment, God declares a future day for rebuilding and restoration. This applied literally to Jerusalem after the exile but also serves as an enduring promise for the Church and for individual believers: God can and will rebuild what has been broken, restoring security and community.
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Micah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
On this confession of unworthiness and trust, the message of joy bursts in, with the abruptness and conciseness of Hosea or Nahum:
A day…
19th Century
Anglican
In that day shall the decree be far removed. —The “decree” was something “definite,” as an appointed law or statute, and …
Baptist
This is what was to befall those who had sinned against God and oppressed his people; he would let loose the oppressors on them, and they would fin…
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16th Century
Protestant
Micah pursues the subject on which he had previously spoken—that though the Church thought itself for a time to be wholly lost, yet God would becom…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
[In] the day that your walls are to be built These words are not spoken to the enemy, as some think; either the Chal…
Those truly penitent for sin will see great reason to be patient under affliction. When we complain to the Lord about the badness of the times, we …
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