Nehemiah 12:43

43. Joy of Jerusalem The joy of the people over their completed work, and the prospect of peace and prosperity. Their hosannas, says Wordsworth, “may be caught up and re-echoed by us, when we look forward to the time when the Church militant will have encircled the world, and have completed her mission in preaching the Gospel and in building up her walls; and when the two companies of Gentile and Jew will meet together at the heavenly Zion, and join in one song of united praise to God. Then will the saints see the jewelled walls, and the gates of pearl, and the streets of pure gold, of the heavenly Jerusalem, (Revelation 21:11-21,) and will sing hallelujahs to God and the Lamb, and dwell forever there.”