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Psalms 147:2

The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.

KJV

Quoniam confortavit seras portarum tuarum ; benedixit filiis tuis in te.

Vulgate

ὅτι ἐνίσχυσεν τοὺς μοχλοὺς τῶν πυλῶν σου, εὐλόγησεν τοὺς υἱούς σου ἐν σοί.

LXX

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

ASV

בּוֹנֵ֣ה יְרוּשָׁלִַ֣ם יְהוָ֑ה נִדְחֵ֖י יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל יְכַנֵּֽס

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

בְנ֣וֹת
bnvt
verb · 365×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם
yrvshlm
proper_noun · 634×
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל
yshr'l
proper_noun · 2486×
כְנוֹס֙
knvs
verb · 11×
נִדְחֵ֣י
ndchy
verb · 10×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

1. God will not have us listen to the words and sentences contained in the Scriptures carelessly, but with much attention. This is why the blessed David has prefixed in many places to his Psalms the title for understanding, and has said, Open Thou my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of Your Law. Psalm 32:42, etc.; Psalm 119:18 And after him his son again shows that w…

Cross-references

  • Dan 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
  • Deut 30:3 — That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
  • Deut 30:3 — That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
  • Eph 2:12 — That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
  • Ezek 36:24 — For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
  • Ezek 37:21 — And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own l
  • Ezek 38:8 — After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which
  • Ezek 39:27 — When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
  • Ezra 2:64 — The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,
  • Ezra 8:1 — These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.
  • Isa 11:11 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros,
  • Isa 11:12 — And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
  • Isa 14:32 — What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
  • Isa 27:13 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall wo
  • Isa 44:26 — That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise
  • Isa 56:8 — The Lord GOD, which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.
  • Isa 56:8 — The Lord GOD, which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.
  • Isa 62:7 — And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
  • Jer 31:4 — Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
  • Jer 32:37 — Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwe
  • Mic 4:6 — In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;
  • Neh 1:9 — But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the
  • Neh 3:1 — Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, un
  • Neh 7:4 — Now the city was large and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded.
  • Ps 51:18 — Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
  • Ps 51:18 — Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
  • Ps 102:13 — Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
  • Ps 102:16 — When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
  • Ps 102:20 — To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
  • Ps 122:3 — Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: