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For by You I can run against a troop; By my God I can leap over a wall.
"The archers shot from the wall at your servants; and some of the king's servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also."
Then, as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!"
Then he said, "Throw her down." So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses; and he trampled her underfoot.
And Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate, and at the corner buttress of the wall; then he fortified them.
Then they burned the house of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its precious possessions.
Next to them the Tekoites made repairs; but their nobles did not put their shoulders to the work of their Lord.
And next to them Melatiah the Gibeonite, Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and Mizpah, repaired the residence of the governor of the region beyond the River.
And next to him was Shallum the son of Hallohesh, leader of half the district of Jerusalem; he and his daughters made repairs.
After him their brethren, under Bavai the son of Henadad, leader of the other half of the district of Keilah, made repairs.
Now the city was large and spacious, but the people in it were few, and the houses were not rebuilt.
For by You I can run against a troop, By my God I can leap over a wall.
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you Like a breach ready to fall, A bulge in a high wall, Whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.
The building that faced the separating courtyard at its western end was seventy cubits wide; the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.
Then the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened and his knees knocked against each other.
Thus He showed me: Behold, the Lord stood on a wall made with a plumb line, with a plumb line in His hand.
"Oh, that I might have my request, That God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him"; Lest those who trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
We do not see our signs; There is no longer any prophet; Nor is there any among us who knows how long.