Psalms 48:13

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

They will rebuild the old ruins. They will raise up the former devastated places. They will repair the ruined cities that have been devastated for many generations.

and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.

and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh.”

You have not gone up into the gaps or built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in Yahweh’s day.

Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in Yahweh’s temple.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Tell him, ‘Long life to you! Peace be to you! Peace be to your house! Peace be to all that you have!

God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge.

Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?

My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,

The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.

Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

I will bring my people Israel back from captivity, and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens, and eat their fruit.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he doesn’t make it grow.

let the priests take it to them, each man from his donor; and they shall repair the damage to the house, wherever any damage is found.”

I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may build it.”

Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let’s build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won’t be disgraced.”

Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.

We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.

All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name.

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.

Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.

A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.

But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.

For Yahweh has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.

Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?”

Behold, I have today set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land.

Their children also will be as before, and their congregation will be established before me. I will punish all who oppress them.

I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants. Afterwards it will be inhabited, as in the days of old,” says Yahweh.

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited and the waste places will be built.

He has put down princes from their thrones, and has exalted the lowly.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

You shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘It is because of that which Yahweh did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall tell him, ‘By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage.

You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in the future, saying, ‘What do you mean by these stones?’

When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?

They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, for he has done it.

We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us what work you did in their days, in the days of old.

Come and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has done for my soul.

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,

This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise Yah.

I will observe your statutes. Don’t utterly forsake me.

All the kings of the earth will give you thanks, Yahweh, for they have heard the words of your mouth.

I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands.

One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.

Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.

Those who will be of you will build the old waste places. You will raise up the foundations of many generations. You will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Paths with Dwellings.

but they will serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.

Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old.

All the trees of the field will know that I, Yahweh, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree flourish. “ ‘I, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it.’ ”

I will multiply man and animal on you. They will increase and be fruitful. I will cause you to be inhabited as you were before, and you will do better than at your beginnings. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.

Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.

In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.

Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the middle of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.

This is what Yahweh of Armies says: “Consider your ways.

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.