Psalms 102:13-14

13You will aarise and have bpity on Zion;
it is the time to favor her;
cthe appointed time has come.
14For your servants hold her dstones dear
and have pity on her dust.

Isaiah 44:26

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

Isaiah 49:8

The Restoration of Israel

8 Thus says the Lord:
g“In a htime of favor I have answered you;
in a day of salvation I have helped you;
I will keep you iand give you
as a covenant to the people,
to establish the land,
jto apportion the desolate heritages,

Isaiah 52:9

9 kBreak forth together into singing,
lyou waste places of Jerusalem,
for mthe Lord has comforted his people;
he has redeemed Jerusalem.

Isaiah 61:4

4 nThey shall build up the ancient ruins;
they shall raise up the former devastations;
they shall repair the ruined cities,
the devastations of many generations.

Jeremiah 33:12-13

12Thus says the Lord of hosts: oIn this place that is waste, without man or beast, and in all of its cities, there shall again be phabitations of shepherds qresting their flocks. 13 rIn the cities of the hill country, sin the cities of the Shephelah, tand in the cities of the Negeb, in the land of Benjamin, uthe places about Jerusalem, vand in the cities of Judah, wflocks shall again pass under the hands xof the one who counts them, says the Lord.

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