Micah 7:11
In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.
Context
This verse from Micah Chapter 7 connects to 10 cross-references. Micah laments the absence of the godly in the land where officials and judges demand bribes and a man's enemies are members of his own household. The poem pivots to hope: though I fall I will rise; though I sit …
Other Translations
A day for building thy walls! in that day shall the decree be far removed.
The day to build thy walls! That day--removed is the limit.
A day for building your walls! in that day will your limits be stretched far and wide.
Cross References
Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, …
Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year …
And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams …
Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates …
Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified …
After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Beth–zur, unto the place over …
Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, …
So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had …
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay …
Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the …