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 102:16For Yahweh has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.
• Luke 12:32Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
• Ps 122:6–9Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper.
• Eph 1:5having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
• Zech 2:5For I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.
• Phil 2:13For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
• 2 Th 1:11To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and 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 her righteousness shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning lamp.
• Ps 147:2Yahweh builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.
• Isa 51:3For Yahweh has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
• Mic 7:11A day to build your walls — In that day, he will extend your boundary.
• Isa 62:6–7I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,
• Ps 25:22Redeem Israel, God, out all of his troubles.
• Neh 2:17Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won’t be disgraced.”
• Isa 58:12Those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Paths with Dwellings.
• Ps 137:5–6If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill.
• 2 Cor 11:28–29Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies.
• Jer 51:50You who have escaped the sword, go! Don’t stand still! Remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.”
• Dan 9:25Know therefore and discern, that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.
• Ps 69:35For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.
• Eph 1:9making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

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