You allowed men to ride over our heads; we passed through fire and water, but you brought us out into a wide open place. ¹ 

He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.”

Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth ¹  we are absent from the Lord –

All the land will change and become like the Arabah ¹  from Geba to Rimmon, ²  south of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem will be raised up and will stay in its own place from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate ³  and on to the Corner Gate, ⁴  and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses. ⁵