You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor—the appointed time has come.
Parallel translations
- WEB You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.
- KJV Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
- NKJV You will arise and have mercy on Zion; For the time to favor her, Yes, the set time, has come.
- NASB You will arise and have compassion on Zion; For it is time to be gracious to her, For the appointed time has come.
- NLT You will arise and have mercy on Jerusalem— and now is the time to pity her, now is the time you promised to help.
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Quick answer
God will arise and have mercy on Zion, for the appointed time has come. Hope rests on God's sure timing to restore His people.
Overview
The psalmist trusts that God will act in compassion toward Zion at the set time He has ordained. Personal lament gives way to confidence in God's faithful purposes for His people. This anticipates God's saving work in Christ, through whom He shows mercy and gathers His people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 22
- Gal 4:4But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
- Isa 40:2“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”
- Isa 60:1Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
- Ps 44:26Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.
- Zech 2:10–12“Shout for joy and be glad, O Daughter of Zion, for I am coming to dwell among you,” declares the LORD.
- Ps 69:35–36For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah, that they may dwell there and possess it.
- 2 Pet 3:8Beloved, do not let this one thing escape your notice: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
- Isa 60:10–14Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Although I struck you in anger, yet in favor I will show you mercy.
- Rev 11:15–18Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”
- Acts 1:7Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.
- Ezra 1:1–11In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:
- Dan 9:2–27in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.
- Jer 31:10–12Hear, O nations, the word of the LORD, and proclaim it in distant coastlands: “The One who scattered Israel will gather them and keep them as a shepherd keeps his flock.
- Dan 12:12–13Blessed is he who waits and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.
- Ps 7:6Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.
- 2 Pet 3:12as you anticipate and hasten the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will be destroyed by fire and the elements will melt in the heat.
- Ps 75:2“When I choose a time, I will judge fairly.
- Jer 31:23This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “When I restore them from captivity, they will once again speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities: ‘May the LORD bless you, O righteous dwelling place, O holy mountain.’
- Dan 12:9“Go on your way, Daniel,” he replied, “for the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end.
- Zech 1:12–13Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?”
- Isa 14:32What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”
- Ps 51:18In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.
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