Isa 44:26, Jer 34:22, Lam 2:2, 7-8 | ESV | STEP | who confirms the word of his servant and fulfills the counsel of his messengers , who says of Jerusalem , She shall be inhabited , and of the cities of Judah , They shall be built , and I will raise up their ruins ;

Isaiah 44:26

26 ^awho confirms the word of his servant
and fulfills the counsel of his messengers,
who says of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be inhabited,’
^band of the cities of Judah, ‘They shall be built,
and I will raise up their ruins’;

Jeremiah 34:22

22 Behold, ^cI will command, declares the Lord, and will ^dbring them back to this city. ^eAnd they will fight against it and take it and burn it with fire. ^fI will make the cities of Judah a desolation ^gwithout inhabitant.”

Lamentations 2:2

2 The Lord ^hhas swallowed up ⁱwithout mercy
all the habitations of Jacob;
in his wrath ^jhe has broken down
the strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
he has brought ^kdown to the ground ^lin dishonor
the kingdom ^mand its rulers.

Lamentations 2:7-8

7 ⁿThe Lord has scorned his altar,
^odisowned his sanctuary;
^phe has delivered into the hand of the enemy
the walls of her palaces;
^qthey raised a clamor in the house of the Lord
as on the day of festival.
8 ^rThe Lord determined to lay in ruins
^sthe wall of the daughter of Zion;
^the stretched out the measuring line;
he did not restrain his hand from destroying;
^uhe caused rampart and wall to lament;
^vthey languished together.