Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Surely Your servants find pleasure in her stones
And feel pity for her dust.

King James Version

For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.

Holman Bible

For Your servants take delight in its stones
and favor its dust.

International Standard Version

Your servants take pleasure in its stones and delight in its debris.

A Conservative Version

For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity upon her dust.

American Standard Version

For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, And have pity upon her dust.

Amplified


For Your servants find [melancholy] pleasure in the stones [of her ruins]
And feel pity for her dust.

Darby Translation

For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour her dust.

Julia Smith Translation

For thy servants delighted in her stones, and they will compassionate her dust

King James 2000

For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and favor the dust thereof.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Your servants take pleasure in her stones, and show favor to its dust.

Modern King James verseion

For Your servants take pleasure in its stones, and pity its dust.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And why? Thy servants think upon her stones, and it pitieth them to see her in the dust.

NET Bible

Indeed, your servants take delight in her stones, and feel compassion for the dust of her ruins.

New Heart English Bible

For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.

The Emphasized Bible

Seeing that thy servants, take pleasure, in her stones, And, her dust, they favour:

Webster

For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favor the dust thereof.

World English Bible

For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.

Youngs Literal Translation

For Thy servants have been pleased with her stones, And her dust they favour.

References

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Verse Info

Context Readings

Affliction In Light Of Eternity

13 You will arise and have compassion on Zion;
For it is time to be gracious to her,
For the appointed time has come.
14 Surely Your servants find pleasure in her stones
And feel pity for her dust.
15 So the nations will fear the name of the Lord
And all the kings of the earth Your glory.


Cross References

Nehemiah 4:2

He spoke in the presence of his brothers and the wealthy men of Samaria and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Are they going to restore it for themselves? Can they offer sacrifices? Can they finish in a day? Can they revive the stones from the dusty rubble even the burned ones?”

Ezra 1:5

Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin and the priests and the Levites arose, even everyone whose spirit God had stirred to go up and rebuild the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem.

Ezra 3:1-3

Now when the seventh month came, and the sons of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered together as one man to Jerusalem.

Ezra 7:27

Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to adorn the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem,

Nehemiah 1:3

They said to me, “The remnant there in the province who survived the captivity are in great distress and reproach, and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its gates are burned with fire.”

Nehemiah 2:3

I said to the king, “Let the king live forever. Why should my face not be sad when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies desolate and its gates have been consumed by fire?”

Nehemiah 2:17

Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation we are in, that Jerusalem is desolate and its gates burned by fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that we will no longer be a reproach.”

Nehemiah 4:6

So we built the wall and the whole wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.

Nehemiah 4:10

Thus in Judah it was said,
“The strength of the burden bearers is failing,
Yet there is much rubbish;
And we ourselves are unable
To rebuild the wall.”

Psalm 79:1

A Psalm of Asaph.
O God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance;
They have defiled Your holy temple;
They have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

Psalm 79:7-10

For they have devoured Jacob
And laid waste his habitation.

Psalm 137:5-6

If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
May my right hand forget her skill.

Daniel 9:16

O Lord, in accordance with all Your righteous acts, let now Your anger and Your wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a reproach to all those around us.

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