For Your servants delight in her stones and take pity on her dust.
Parallel translations
- WEB For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.
- KJV For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.
- NKJV For Your servants take pleasure in her stones, And show favor to her dust.
- NASB Surely Your servants take pleasure in her stones, And feel pity for her dust.
- NLT For your people love every stone in her walls and cherish even the dust in her streets.
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Quick answer
God's servants love even the stones and dust of Zion. Their hearts long for the restoration of God's city.
Overview
The faithful cherish Zion so deeply that even its ruined stones and dust are dear to them. This love reflects their devotion to the place of God's presence and promise. It points beyond the earthly city to the heavenly Zion, the lasting city believers seek in Christ (Hebrews 12:22).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Neh 4:2before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”
- Neh 1:3And they told me, “The remnant who survived the exile are there in the province, in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”
- Ezra 7:27Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put into the heart of the king to so honor the house of the LORD in Jerusalem,
- Neh 2:3and replied to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should I not be sad when the city where my fathers are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”
- Neh 4:6So we rebuilt the wall until all of it was joined together up to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.
- Neh 2:17Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned down. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”
- Ezra 3:1–3By the seventh month, the Israelites had settled in their towns, and the people assembled as one man in Jerusalem.
- Ezra 1:5So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—prepared to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.
- Ps 79:7–10for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.
- Ps 137:5–6If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.
- Ps 79:1A Psalm of Asaph. The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
- Neh 4:10Meanwhile, the people of Judah said: “The strength of the laborer fails, and there is so much rubble that we will never be able to rebuild the wall.”
- Dan 9:16O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your anger and wrath may turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all around us.
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