Isaiah 9:10
Good News Translation
"The brick buildings have fallen down, but we will replace them with stone buildings. The beams of sycamore wood have been cut down, but we will replace them with the finest cedar."

New Revised Standard Version
“The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stones; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.”

Contemporary English Version
"Houses of brick and sycamore have fallen to the ground, but we will build houses with stones and cedar."

New American Bible
“Bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with cut stone; Sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Isaiah 9:9
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