Psalms 51:18

World English Bible (2000)

Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 102:16 : 16 For Yahweh has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.
  • Luke 12:32 : 32 Don't be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
  • 2 Cor 11:28-29 : 28 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don't burn with indignation?
  • Eph 1:5 : 5 having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
  • Eph 1:9 : 9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
  • Phil 2:13 : 13 For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
  • 2 Thess 1:11 : 11 To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith, with power;
  • Neh 2:17 : 17 Then I said to them, "You see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won't be disgraced."
  • Ps 25:22 : 22 Redeem Israel, God, out all of his troubles. By David.
  • Ps 69:35 : 35 For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.
  • Ps 122:6-9 : 6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper. 7 Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces. 8 For my brothers' and companions' sakes, I will now say, "Peace be within you." 9 For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God, I will seek your good. A Song of Ascents.
  • Ps 137:5-6 : 5 If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill. 6 Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don't remember you; if I don't prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.
  • Ps 147:2 : 2 Yahweh builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.
  • Isa 51:3 : 3 For Yahweh has comforted Zion; he has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
  • Isa 58:12 : 12 Those who shall be of 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 paths to dwell in.
  • Isa 62:1 : 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 burns.
  • Isa 62:6-7 : 6 I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest, 7 and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
  • Jer 51:50 : 50 You who have escaped the sword, go, don't stand still; remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
  • Dan 9:25 : 25 Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.
  • Mic 7:11 : 11 A day to build your walls-- In that day, he will extend your boundary.
  • Zech 2:5 : 5 For I,' says Yahweh, 'will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.

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  • 19 Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar. For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, "David has come to Abimelech's house."

  • Ps 147:1-2
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    1 Praise Yah, for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.

    2 Yahweh builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.

  • Ps 122:6-7
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    6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper.

    7 Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.

  • Ps 147:12-13
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    12 Praise Yahweh, Jerusalem! Praise your God, Zion!

    13 For he has strengthened the bars of your gates. He has blessed your children within you.

  • Ps 51:16-17
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    16 For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

    17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

  • Ps 102:13-14
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    13 You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

    14 For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.

  • 26 who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, 'She will be inhabited;' and of the cities of Judah, 'They will be built,' and 'I will raise up its waste places;'

  • 9 Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.

  • Ps 122:2-3
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    2 Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem;

    3 Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together;

  • 8 Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified," says Yahweh.

  • 15 so again have I thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don't be afraid.

  • 8 Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out the line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.

  • 21 Blessed be Yahweh from Zion, Who dwells at Jerusalem. Praise Yah!

  • 10 You numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.

  • Isa 62:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6 I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest,

    7 and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

  • 19 in the courts of Yahweh's house, in the midst of you, Jerusalem. Praise Yah!

  • 10 "Foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor have I had mercy on you.

  • 5 May Yahweh bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

  • Zech 1:16-17
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    16 Therefore thus says Yahweh: "I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it," says Yahweh of Armies, "and a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem."'

    17 "Proclaim further, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and Yahweh will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem."'"

  • 8 Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

  • Ps 137:6-7
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    6 Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don't remember you; if I don't prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.

    7 Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; who said, "Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!"

  • 17 Then I said to them, "You see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won't be disgraced."

  • 11 Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice, Because of your judgments.

  • 4 Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts.

  • 10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

  • 18 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will turn again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places; and the city shall be built on its own hill, and the palace shall be inhabited in its own way.

  • 35 For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.

  • 16 For Yahweh has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.

  • 12 Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.

  • 16 Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.

  • 2 For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.

  • 38 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that the city shall be built to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner.

  • 12 Those who shall be of 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 paths to dwell in.

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

  • 10 "Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her: rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;

  • 10 "Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don't make a full end. Take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh's.

  • 2 send you help from the sanctuary, grant you support from Zion,

  • 11 A day to build your walls-- In that day, he will extend your boundary.

  • 1 In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city. God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks.

  • 8 Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, a land not inhabited."

  • 15 "Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no man passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.