Psalm 102:13

Affliction In Light Of Eternity

¹² But you, O Lord, rule forever, and your reputation endures. ¹³ You will rise up and have compassion on Zion. For it is time to have mercy on her, for the appointed time has come. ¹⁴ Indeed, your servants take delight in her stones, and feel compassion for the dust of her ruins.

Appointed Time

Have Mercy

Upon Zion

Be Gracious

Zion

Psalm 44:26

Rise up and help us! Rescue us because of your loyal love!

Isaiah 40:2

"Speak kindly to Jerusalem, and tell her that her time of warfare is over, that her punishment is completed. For the Lord has made her pay double for all her sins."

Ezra 1:1-11

In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, in order to fulfill the Lord's message spoken through Jeremiah, the Lord stirred the mind of King Cyrus of Persia. He disseminated a proclamation throughout his entire kingdom, announcing in a written edict the following:

Psalm 7:6

Stand up angrily, Lord! Rise up with raging fury against my enemies! Wake up for my sake and execute the judgment you have decreed for them!

Psalm 51:18

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

Psalm 69:35-36

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

Psalm 75:2

God says, "At the appointed times, I judge fairly.

Isaiah 14:32

How will they respond to the messengers of this nation? Indeed, the Lord has made Zion secure; the oppressed among his people will find safety in her.

Isaiah 60:1

"Arise! Shine! For your light arrives! The splendor of the Lord shines on you!

Isaiah 60:10-14

Foreigners will rebuild your walls; their kings will serve you. Even though I struck you down in my anger, I will restore my favor and have compassion on you.

Jeremiah 31:10-12

Hear what the Lord has to say, O nations. Proclaim it in the faraway lands along the sea. Say, "The one who scattered Israel will regather them. He will watch over his people like a shepherd watches over his flock."

Jeremiah 31:23

The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, "I will restore the people of Judah to their land and to their towns. When I do, they will again say of Jerusalem, 'May the Lord bless you, you holy mountain, the place where righteousness dwells.'

Daniel 9:2-27

in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, came to understand from the sacred books that, according to the word of the LORD disclosed to the prophet Jeremiah, the years for the fulfilling of the desolation of Jerusalem were seventy in number.

Daniel 12:9

He said, "Go, Daniel. For these matters are closed and sealed until the time of the end.

Daniel 12:12-13

Blessed is the one who waits and attains to the 1,335 days.

Zechariah 1:12-13

The angel of the Lord then asked, "Lord who rules over all, how long before you have compassion on Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah which you have been so angry with for these seventy years?"

Zechariah 2:10-12

"Sing out and be happy, Zion my daughter! For look, I have come; I will settle in your midst," says the Lord.

Acts 1:7

He told them, "You are not permitted to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.

Galatians 4:4

But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

2 Peter 3:8

Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day.

2 Peter 3:12

while waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God? Because of this day, the heavens will be burned up and dissolve, and the celestial bodies will melt away in a blaze!

Revelation 11:15-18

Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven saying: "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever."