Psalms 51:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Do good to Zion in your good pleasure, building up the walls of Jerusalem.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 102:16 : 16 When the Lord has put up the walls of Zion, and has been been in his glory;
  • Luke 12:32 : 32 Have no fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
  • 2 Cor 11:28-29 : 28 In addition to all the other things, there is that which comes on me every day, the care of all the churches. 29 Who is feeble and I am not feeble? who is in danger of falling, and I am not angry?
  • Eph 1:5 : 5 As we were designed before by him for the position of sons to himself, through Jesus Christ, in the good pleasure of his purpose,
  • Eph 1:9 : 9 Having made clear to us the secret of his purpose, in agreement with the design which he had in mind, to put into his hands
  • Phil 2:13 : 13 For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.
  • 2 Thess 1:11 : 11 For this reason, you are ever in our prayers, that you may seem to our God such as may have a part in his purpose and that by his power he will make all his good purpose, and the work of faith, complete;
  • Neh 2:17 : 17 Then I said to them, You see what a bad condition we are in; how Jerusalem is a waste, and its doorways burned with fire: come, let us get to work, building up the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer be put to shame.
  • Ps 25:22 : 22 Give Israel salvation, O God, out of all his troubles.
  • Ps 69:35 : 35 For God will be the saviour of Zion, and the builder of the towns of Judah; so that it may be their resting-place and heritage.
  • Ps 122:6-9 : 6 O make prayers for the peace of Jerusalem; may they whose love is given to you do well. 7 May peace be inside your walls, and wealth in your noble houses. 8 Because of my brothers and friends, I will now say, Let peace be with you. 9 Because of the house of the Lord our God, I will be working for your good.
  • Ps 137:5-6 : 5 If I keep not your memory, O Jerusalem, let not my right hand keep the memory of its art. 6 If I let you go out of my thoughts, and if I do not put Jerusalem before my greatest joy, let my tongue be fixed to the roof of my mouth.
  • Ps 147:2 : 2 The Lord is building up Jerusalem; he makes all the outlaws of Israel come together.
  • Isa 51:3 : 3 For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.
  • Isa 58:12 : 12 And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use.
  • Isa 62:1 : 1 Because of Zion I will not keep quiet, and because of Jerusalem I will take no rest, till her righteousness goes out like the shining of the sun, and her salvation like a burning light.
  • Isa 62:6-7 : 6 I have put watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will not keep quiet day or night: you who are the Lord's recorders, take no rest, 7 And give him no rest, till he puts Jerusalem in her place to be praised in the earth.
  • Jer 51:50 : 50 You who have got away safe from the sword, go, waiting for nothing; have the Lord in memory when you are far away, and keep Jerusalem in mind.
  • Dan 9:25 : 25 Have then the certain knowledge that from the going out of the word for the building again of Jerusalem till the coming of a prince, on whom the holy oil has been put, will be seven weeks: in sixty-two weeks its building will be complete, with square and earthwork.
  • Mic 7:11 : 11 A day for building your walls! in that day will your limits be stretched far and wide.
  • Zech 2:5 : 5 And lifting up my eyes, I saw a man with a measuring-line in his hand.

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    12 Give praise to the Lord, O Jerusalem; give praise to your God, O Zion.

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    13 You will again get up and have mercy on Zion: for the time has come for her to be comforted.

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    26 Who makes the word of his servants certain, and gives effect to the purposes of his representatives; who says of Jerusalem, Her people will come back to her; and of the towns of Judah, I will give orders for their building, and will make her waste places fertile again:

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    9 Give sounds of joy, make melody together, waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord has given comfort to his people, he has taken up the cause of Jerusalem.

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    2 At last our feet were inside your doors, O Jerusalem.

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    8 Go up to the hills and get wood and put up the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be honoured, says the Lord.

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    15 So in these days it is again my purpose to do good to Jerusalem and to the children of Judah: have no fear.

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    8 It is the Lord's purpose to make waste the wall of the daughter of Zion; his line has been stretched out, he has not kept back his hand from destruction: he has sent sorrow on tower and wall, they have become feeble together.

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    21 Praise be to the Lord out of Zion, even to the Lord whose house is in Jerusalem, Let the Lord be praised.

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    10 And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger.

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    6 I have put watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will not keep quiet day or night: you who are the Lord's recorders, take no rest,

    7 And give him no rest, till he puts Jerusalem in her place to be praised in the earth.

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    19 In the Lord's house, even in Jerusalem. Praise be to the Lord.

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    10 And men from strange countries will be building up your walls, and their kings will be your servants: for in my wrath I sent punishment on you, but in my grace I have had mercy on you.

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    5 May the Lord send you blessing out of Zion: may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

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    6 If I let you go out of my thoughts, and if I do not put Jerusalem before my greatest joy, let my tongue be fixed to the roof of my mouth.

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    10 They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing.

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