Parallel Verses

King James 2000

Do good in your good pleasure unto Zion: build you 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.

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, you will not despise. 18 Do good in your good pleasure unto Zion: build you the walls of Jerusalem. 19 Then shall you be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon your altar.


Cross References

Psalm 102:16

When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.

Nehemiah 2:17

Then said I unto them, You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we are 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: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.

Psalm 122:6-9

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

Psalm 137:5-6

If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its cunning.

Psalm 147:2

The LORD does build up Jerusalem: he gathers together the outcasts of Israel.

Isaiah 51:3

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

Isaiah 58:12

And they from among you shall build the old waste places: you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of streets 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 its righteousness goes forth as brightness, and its salvation as a lamp that burns.

Isaiah 62:6-7

I have set watchmen upon your walls, O Jerusalem, who shall never hold their peace day nor night: you that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence.

Jeremiah 51:50

You that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

Daniel 9:25

Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah, the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublesome times.

Micah 7:11

In the day that your walls are to be built, in that day shall your boundaries be far extended.

Zechariah 2:5

For I, says the LORD, 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 is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

2 Corinthians 11:28-29

Besides those things that are outside, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

Ephesians 1:5

Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

Ephesians 1:9

Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he has purposed in himself:

Philippians 2:13

For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

2 Thessalonians 1:11

Therefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:

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