Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O be favourable and gracious unto Zion; build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

New American Standard Bible

By Your favor do good to Zion;
Build the walls of Jerusalem.

King James Version

Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

Holman Bible

In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper;
build the walls of Jerusalem.

International Standard Version

Show favor to Zion in your good pleasure; and rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.

A Conservative Version

Do good in thy good pleasure to Zion. Build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

American Standard Version

Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: Build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

Amplified


By Your favor do good to Zion;
May You rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.

Bible in Basic English

Do good to Zion in your good pleasure, building up the walls of Jerusalem.

Darby Translation

Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build the walls of Jerusalem.

Julia Smith Translation

Do Zion good in thy good will: thou wilt build the walls of Jerusalem.

King James 2000

Do good in your good pleasure unto Zion: build you the walls of Jerusalem.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Do good in your favor toward Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.

Modern King James verseion

Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion; build the walls of Jerusalem.

NET Bible

Because you favor Zion, do what is good for her! Fortify the walls of Jerusalem!

New Heart English Bible

Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.

The Emphasized Bible

Do good, in thy good-pleasure, unto Zion, Wilt thou build the walls of Jerusalem!

Webster

Do good in thy good pleasure to Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

World English Bible

Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.

Youngs Literal Translation

Do good in Thy good pleasure with Zion, Thou dost build the walls of Jerusalem.

References

Easton

Hastings

Context Readings

Create In Me A Clean Heart, O God

17 The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, shalt thou not despise. 18 O be favourable and gracious unto Zion; build thou the walls of Jerusalem. 19 For then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifice of righteousness, with the burnt-offerings and oblations; then shall they lay bullocks upon thine altar.


Cross References

Psalm 102:16

when the LORD shall build up Zion, and when his glory shall appear;

Nehemiah 2:17

And I said unto them, "Ye see the misery that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and how the gates thereof are burnt with fire. Come, let us build up the walls of Jerusalem, that we be no more a rebuke."

Psalm 25:22

Deliver Israel, O God, out of all his trouble.

Psalm 69:35

For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah, that men may dwell there, and have it in possession.

Psalm 122:6-9

O pray for the peace of Jerusalem; they shall prosper that love thee.

Psalm 137:5-6

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my righthand forget her cunning.

Psalm 147:2

The LORD doth build up Jerusalem, and gather together the outcasts of Israel.

Isaiah 51:3

For the LORD hath compassion on Zion and hath compassion on all that is decayed therein, and will make her wilderness as paradise, and her desert as the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness shall be found therein, with thanksgiving and the voice of praise.

Isaiah 58:12

Then the places that have ever been waste, shall be builded of thee: there shalt thou lay a foundation for many kindreds. Thou shalt be called the maker-up of hedges, and the builder-again of the way of the Sabbath.

Isaiah 62:1

For Zion's sake therefore will I not hold my tongue, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not cease: until their righteousness break forth as a shining light, and their salvation as a burning lamp.

Isaiah 62:6-7

Upon the walls of Jerusalem, I have set keepers which shall never cease, neither by day nor yet by night.

Jeremiah 51:50

Ye that have escaped the sword: haste you, stand not still. Remember the LORD afar off, and think upon Jerusalem:

Daniel 9:25

Understand this then, and mark it well: That from the time it shall be concluded to go and repair Jerusalem again, unto Christ, the anointed Prince: there shall be seven weeks.Then shall the streets and walls be builded again sixty two weeks, but with hard troublous time.

Micah 7:11

The time will come, that thy gaps shall be made up, and the law shall go abroad:

Zechariah 2:5

Yea, I myself, sayeth the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be honored in her.'

Luke 12:32

Fear not little flock, for it is your father's pleasure, to give you a kingdom.

2 Corinthians 11:28-29

And beside the things which outwardly happen unto me, I am cumbered daily and do care for all congregations.

Ephesians 1:5

And ordained us before unto himself that we should be chosen before, through Jesus Christ, to be heirs unto himself according to the pleasure of his will,

Ephesians 1:9

And hath opened unto us the mystery of his will according to his pleasure, and purposed

Philippians 2:13

For it is God which worketh in you both the will and also the deed, even of good will.

2 Thessalonians 1:11

Wherefore, we pray always for you that our God make you worthy of the calling, and fulfill all delectation of goodness, and the work of faith, with power:

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