“It will happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” says the LORD.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.