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Isaiah 58:12

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58:12Your perpetual ruins will be rebuilt;29

you will reestablish the ancient foundations.

You will be called, ‘The one who repairs broken walls,

the one who makes the streets inhabitable again.’30

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Footnotes

  1. 29 Heb “and they will build from you ancient ruins.”
  2. 30 The Hebrew text has “the one who restores paths for dwelling.” The idea of “paths to dwell in” is not a common notion. Some have proposed emending נְתִיבוֹת (nétivot, “paths”) to נְתִיצוֹת (nétitsot, “ruins”), a passive participle from נָתַץ (natats, “tear down”; see *נְתִיצָה), because tighter parallelism with the preceding line is achieved. However, none of the textual sources support this emendation. The line may mean that paths must be repaired in order to dwell in the land.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt;

you shall raise up the foundations of many generations;

you shall be called the repairer of the breach,

the restorer of streets to dwell in.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins

and will raise up the age-old foundations;

you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls,

Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Some of you will rebuild the ancient ruins;

you will restore the foundations laid long ago;

you will be called the repairer of broken walls,

the restorer of streets where people live.

NLTNew Living Translation

Some of you will rebuild the deserted ruins of your cities.

Then you will be known as a rebuilder of walls

and a restorer of homes.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And they shall rebuild ancient ruins from you;

you shall erect the foundations of many generations,

and you shall be called the bricklayer of the breach,

the restorer of paths to live in.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.