Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

Do good in thy good pleasure 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.

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.

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 contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. 18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: Build thou the walls of Jerusalem. 19 Then will thou delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, In burnt-offering and in whole burnt-offering: Then will they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

Cross References

Psalm 102:16

For Jehovah hath built up Zion; He hath appeared in his glory.

Nehemiah 2:17

Then said I unto them, Ye see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof 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 all of his troubles.

Psalm 69:35

For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah; And they shall abide there, and have it in possession.

Psalm 122:6-9

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

Psalm 137:5-6

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her skill .

Psalm 147:2

Jehovah doth build up Jerusalem; He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.

Isaiah 51:3

For Jehovah hath comforted Zion; he hath comforted all her waste places, and hath made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

Isaiah 58:12

And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places; thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

Isaiah 62:1

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

Isaiah 62:6-7

I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that are Jehovah's remembrancers, take ye no rest,

Jeremiah 51:50

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

Daniel 9:25

Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the anointed one, the prince, shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troublous times.

Micah 7:11

A day for building thy walls! in that day shall the decree be far removed.

Zechariah 2:5

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

Luke 12:32

Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

2 Corinthians 11:28-29

Besides those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the churches.

Ephesians 1:5

having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

Ephesians 1:9

making known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

Philippians 2:13

for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

2 Thessalonians 1:11

To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every desire of goodness and every work of faith, with power;

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