Psalms 51:18

David prays for God to do good to Zion and build up Jerusalem. His personal repentance widens into concern for God's people.

Cross-references · 21

• Ps 102:16When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
• Luke 12:32Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
• Ps 122:6–9Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
• Eph 1:5Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
• Zech 2:5For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
• Phil 2:13For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
• 2 Th 1:11Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
• Isa 62:1For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
• Ps 147:2The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
• Isa 51:3For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
• Mic 7:11In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.
• Isa 62:6–7I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
• Ps 25:22Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.
• 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.
• Isa 58:12And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
• Ps 137:5–6If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
• 2 Cor 11:28–29Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
• Jer 51:50Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
• Dan 9:25Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
• Ps 69:35For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
• Eph 1:9Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

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