Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build 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.

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.

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 sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. 18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build the walls of Jerusalem. 19 Then shalt thou have sacrifices of righteousness, burnt-offering, and whole burnt-offering; then shall they offer up bullocks upon thine altar.

Cross References

Psalm 102:16

When Jehovah shall build up Zion, he will appear in his glory.

Nehemiah 2:17

And I said to them, Ye see the distress that we are in, that Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.

Psalm 25:22

Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

Psalm 69:35

For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah; and they shall dwell there, and possess it:

Psalm 122:6-9

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.

Psalm 137:5-6

If I forget thee, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill;

Psalm 147:2

Jehovah doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth the outcasts of Israel.

Isaiah 51:3

For Jehovah shall comfort Zion, he shall comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah: gladness and joy shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of song.

Isaiah 58:12

And they that come of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations that have remained from generation to generation; and thou shalt be called, Repairer of the breaches, restorer of frequented paths.

Isaiah 62:1

For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be still, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a torch that burneth.

Isaiah 62:6-7

I have set watchmen upon thy walls, Jerusalem; all the day and all the night they shall never hold their peace: ye that put Jehovah in remembrance, keep not silence,

Jeremiah 51:50

Ye that have escaped the sword, go, stand not still: remember Jehovah from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

Daniel 9:25

Know therefore and understand: From the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah, the Prince, are seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. The street and the moat shall be built again, even in troublous times.

Micah 7:11

In the day when thy walls shall be built, on that day shall the established limit recede.

Zechariah 2:5

and I, saith Jehovah, I will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.

Luke 12:32

Fear not, little flock, for it has been the good pleasure of your Father to give you the kingdom.

2 Corinthians 11:28-29

Besides those things that are without, the crowd of cares pressing on me daily, the burden of all the assemblies.

Ephesians 1:5

having marked us out beforehand for adoption through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

Ephesians 1:9

having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in himself

Philippians 2:13

for it is God who works in you both the willing and the working according to his good pleasure.

2 Thessalonians 1:11

To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith with power,

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