Parallel Verses

NET Bible

Because you favor Zion, do what is good for her! Fortify 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.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O be favourable and gracious unto Zion; build thou 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 sacrifices God desires are a humble spirit -- O God, a humble and repentant heart you will not reject. 18 Because you favor Zion, do what is good for her! Fortify the walls of Jerusalem! 19 Then you will accept the proper sacrifices, burnt sacrifices and whole offerings; then bulls will be sacrificed on your altar.


Cross References

Psalm 102:16

when the Lord rebuilds Zion, and reveals his splendor,

Nehemiah 2:17

Then I said to them, "You see the problem that we have: Jerusalem is desolate and its gates are burned. Come on! Let's rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that this reproach will not continue."

Psalm 25:22

O God, rescue Israel from all their distress!

Psalm 69:35

For God will deliver Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah, and his people will again live in them and possess Zion.

Psalm 122:6-9

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! May those who love her prosper!

Psalm 137:5-6

If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand be crippled!

Psalm 147:2

The Lord rebuilds Jerusalem, and gathers the exiles of Israel.

Isaiah 51:3

Certainly the Lord will console Zion; he will console all her ruins. He will make her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the Garden of the Lord. Happiness and joy will be restored to her, thanksgiving and the sound of music.

Isaiah 58:12

Your perpetual ruins will be rebuilt; you will reestablish the ancient foundations. You will be called, 'The one who repairs broken walls, the one who makes the streets inhabitable again.'

Isaiah 62:1

"For the sake of Zion I will not be silent; for the sake of Jerusalem I will not be quiet, until her vindication shines brightly and her deliverance burns like a torch."

Isaiah 62:6-7

I post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they should keep praying all day and all night. You who pray to the Lord, don't be silent!

Jeremiah 51:50

You who have escaped the sword, go, do not delay. Remember the Lord in a faraway land. Think about Jerusalem.

Daniel 9:25

So know and understand: From the issuing of the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until an anointed one, a prince arrives, there will be a period of seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will again be built, with plaza and moat, but in distressful times.

Micah 7:11

It will be a day for rebuilding your walls; in that day your boundary will be extended.

Zechariah 2:5

But I (the Lord says) will be a wall of fire surrounding Jerusalem and the source of glory in her midst.'"

Luke 12:32

"Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is well pleased to give you the kingdom.

2 Corinthians 11:28-29

Apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxious concern for all the churches.

Ephesians 1:5

He did this by predestining us to adoption as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will --

Ephesians 1:9

He did this when he revealed to us the secret of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ,

Philippians 2:13

for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort -- for the sake of his good pleasure -- is God.

2 Thessalonians 1:11

And in this regard we pray for you always, that our God will make you worthy of his calling and fulfill by his power your every desire for goodness and every work of faith,

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