Psalm 147:2 “The LORD builds up Jerusalem; He gathers the exiles of Israel.”

Psalm 147:2

The LORD builds up Jerusalem; He gathers the exiles of Israel.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

The LORD builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

The Lord doth builde vp Ierusalem, and gather together the dispersed of Israel.

Darby Translation

Jehovah doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth the outcasts of Israel.

Young's Literal Translation

Building Jerusalem [is] Jehovah, The driven away of Israel He gathereth.

Bible in Basic English

The Lord is building up Jerusalem; he makes all the outlaws of Israel come together.

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Cross references

“build”

Psalm 51:18 Isaiah 62:7 Isaiah 14:32 Jeremiah 31:4 Psalm 102:13–16 Nehemiah 3:1–16

Psalm 51:18 · BSB

In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 62:7 · BSB

nor give Him any rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.

Isaiah 14:32 · BSB

What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”

Jeremiah 31:4 · BSB

Again I will build you, and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out in joyful dancing.

Psalm 102:13–16 · BSB

You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor— the appointed time has come.

Nehemiah 3:1–16 · BSB

At the Sheep Gate, Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests began rebuilding. They dedicated it and installed its doors. After building as far as the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel, they dedicated t…

“he”

Deuteronomy 30:3 Isaiah 56:8 Psalm 102:20–22 Jeremiah 32:37 Ezekiel 38:8 Ephesians 2:12–19

Deuteronomy 30:3 · BSB

then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you.

Isaiah 56:8 · BSB

Thus declares the Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel: “I will gather to them still others besides those already gathered.”

Psalm 102:20–22 · BSB

to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,

Jeremiah 32:37 · BSB

I will surely gather My people from all the lands to which I have banished them in My furious anger and great wrath, and I will return them to this place and make them dwell in safety.

Ezekiel 38:8 · BSB

After a long time you will be summoned. In the latter years you will enter a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They h…

Ephesians 2:12–19 · BSB

remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Hallelujah! How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and lovely to praise Him!

3He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

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