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16 Therefore, thus says the Lord:
I return to Jerusalem in mercy;(A)
    my house[a] will be rebuilt there(B)—oracle of the Lord of hosts—
    and a measuring line will be stretched over Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:16 My house: the Temple. See note on Hg 1:4. Measuring line: a builder’s string, not for devastation, as in Is 34:11, but for reconstruction.