Breach - Stand in the Breach; Stand in the Gap

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Breach - Stand in the Breach; Stand in the Gap

Postby dreams » Fri Oct 31, 2003 7:29 pm

Meaning: Take a remedial action to prevent a complete breakdown. Like when water begins to breach a dam, it is easier to repair the breach than to repair the dam.

Similar proverbs:
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
A stitch in time saves nine.

Proverbs 17:14
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

Psalm 106:23
Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

Isaiah 58:12
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

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Postby dreams » Sat Mar 11, 2006 7:12 pm

Just a few days before my second Inauguration, one of country's best known pastors, Reverend Robert Schuller, suggested that I read Isaiah 58:12. Here's what it says: "Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in." I placed my hand on that verse when I took the oath of office, on behalf of all Americans. For no matter what our differences -- in our faiths, our backgrounds, our politics -- we must all be repairers of the breach.

-William Jefferson Clinton

State of the Union 1997 - February 4, 1997


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