As an auxiliary verb, šûb may be used with bānâ to represent the idea of rebuilding.29 Hill cites the use of šûb in Yahweh’s response as further support for seeing it as an auxiliary verb.30 Notably, šûb is not repeated in Yahweh’s response. At this point the LXX reads: “But let us return and rebuild the desolate places” (kai epistrepsomen kai anoikodomesomen). One may then ask, if the idea of rebuilding is represented by the compound verb in the protasis (condition), why is it altered in the apodosis