Post-exile neighbors show up ready to help rebuild the temple—“Let us build with you”—but are shut out. Isaiah answers with God’s counter-vision: a house of prayer for all peoples. There's a difference between tolerating people and truly including them—moving from “everyone’s welcome” to “we built this with you in mind.”

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