Psalms 147:2

God builds up Jerusalem and gathers Israel's outcasts. He restores His scattered people and rebuilds their community.

Cross-references · 22

• Isa 56:8Thus declares the Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel: “I will gather to them still others besides those already gathered.”
• Deut 30:3then 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.
• Ps 51:18In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.
• Isa 62:7nor give Him any rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.
• Ps 102:20–22to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,
• 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.”
• Ezek 38:8After 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 had been brought out from the nations, and all now dwell securely.
• Eph 2:12–19remember 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.
• Ezek 39:27–28When I bring them back from the peoples and gather them out of the lands of their enemies, I will show My holiness in them in the sight of many nations.
• Jer 32:37I 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.
• Jer 31:4Again 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.
• Ezek 36:24–38For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and I will bring you back into your own land.
• Isa 27:13And in that day a great ram’s horn will sound, and those who were perishing in Assyria will come forth with those who were exiles in Egypt. And they will worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
• Neh 7:4Now the city was large and spacious, but there were few people in it, and the houses had not yet been rebuilt.
• Ezra 2:64–65The whole assembly numbered 42,360,
• Neh 3:1–16At 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 the wall.
• Isa 11:11–12On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
• Ps 102:13–16You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor—the appointed time has come.
• Ezek 37:21–28you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take the Israelites out of the nations to which they have gone, and I will gather them from all around and bring them into their own land.
• Ezra 8:1–14These are the family heads and genealogical records of those who returned with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:
• Dan 9:25Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.
• Matt 16:18And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

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