For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.
Parallel translations
- WEB For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.
- BSB For Your servants delight in her stones and take pity on her dust.
- 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 4:2And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
- Neh 1:3And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.
- Ezra 7:27Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem:
- Neh 2:3And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
- Neh 4:6So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
- Neh 2:17Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
- Ezra 3:1–3And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
- Ezra 1:5Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.
- Ps 79:7–10For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
- Ps 137:5–6If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
- Ps 79:1O GOD, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
- Neh 4:10And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
- Dan 9:16O LORD, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
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