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18 Violence will never again be heard of in your land;(A)
devastation and destruction
will be gone from your borders.
You will call your walls Salvation(B)
and your city gates Praise.

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The Wall and Outer Gates

Now there was a wall surrounding the outside of the temple.(A) The measuring rod in the man’s hand was six units of 53 centimetres;[a] each unit was the standard length plus 8 centimetres.[b] He measured the thickness of the wall structure; it was 3.2 metres,[c] and its height was the same.

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Footnotes

  1. 40:5 = a long cubit
  2. 40:5 Lit six cubits by the cubit and a handbreadth
  3. 40:5 Lit was one rod, also in v. 7

The declaration of the Lord: ‘I myself will be a wall(A) of fire round it, and I will be the glory within it.’

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