Isaiah 9:10
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The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with square stones: they have cut down the sycamores, but we will change them for cedars.

bricks

1 Kings 7:9-12 All of costly stones, which were sawed by a certain rule and measure, both within and without: from the foundation to the top of the walls, and without, unto the great court. . . .

1 Kings 10:27 And he made silver to be as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones: and cedars to be as common as sycamores which grow in the plains.

Malachi 1:4 But if Edom shall say: We are destroyed, but we will return and build up what hath been destroyed: thus saith the Lord of hosts: They shall build up, and I will throw down: and they shall be called the borders of wickedness, and the people with whom the Lord is angry for ever.

Context
Judgment Against Israel's Pride
9And all the people of Ephraim shall know, and the inhabitants of Samaria that say in the pride and haughtiness of their heart: 10The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with square stones: they have cut down the sycamores, but we will change them for cedars.11And the Lord shall set up the enemies of Rasin over him, and shall bring on his enemies in a crowd:…
Cross References
Luke 19:4
And running before, he climbed up into a sycamore tree, that he might see him: for he was to pass that way.

Hosea 8:14
And Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and hath built temples: and Juda hath built many fenced cities: and I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the houses thereof.

Malachi 1:4
But if Edom shall say: We are destroyed, but we will return and build up what hath been destroyed: thus saith the Lord of hosts: They shall build up, and I will throw down: and they shall be called the borders of wickedness, and the people with whom the Lord is angry for ever.

Lexicon
“The bricks
לְבֵנִ֥ים (lə·ḇê·nîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3843: Brick, tile

have fallen,
נָפָ֖לוּ (nā·p̄ā·lū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 5307: To fall, lie

but we will rebuild
נִבְנֶ֑ה (niḇ·neh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 1129: To build

with finished stone;
וְגָזִ֣ית (wə·ḡā·zîṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1496: Something cut, dressed stone

the sycamores
שִׁקְמִ֣ים (šiq·mîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8256: Sycamore tree

have been felled,
גֻּדָּ֔עוּ (gud·dā·‘ū)
Verb - Pual - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 1438: To fell a, tree, to destroy anything

but we will replace
נַחֲלִֽיף׃ (na·ḥă·lîp̄)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2498: To slide by, to hasten away, pass on, spring up, pierce, change

them with cedars.”
וַאֲרָזִ֖ים (wa·’ă·rā·zîm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 730: A cedar tree


Additional Translations
“The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycomores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.

The bricks are fallen down, but come, let us hew stones, and cut down sycamores and cedars, and let us build for ourselves a tower.

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamore trees are cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.

The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

The bricks have fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

"The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone. The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place."

'Bricks have fallen, and hewn work we build, Sycamores have been cut down, and cedars we renew.'
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