For God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah, So that they may live there and possess it.
Parallel translations
- WEB For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.
- KJV For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
- BSB For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah, that they may dwell there and possess it.
- NKJV For God will save Zion And build the cities of Judah, That they may dwell there and possess it.
- NLT For God will save Jerusalem and rebuild the towns of Judah. His people will live there and settle in their own land.
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Quick answer
God will save Zion and rebuild Judah's cities so his people may settle and possess them. It promises restoration and secure dwelling for God's people.
Overview
David looks beyond present distress to God's certain salvation of Zion and the restoration of Judah's cities. God's deliverance is not only personal but extends to his whole covenant community and their inheritance. This promise of a restored dwelling place ultimately points to the heavenly Zion and the new creation secured for God's people in Christ.
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- Isa 44:26who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited;’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be built,’ and ‘I will raise up its waste places;’
- Ps 51:18Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.
- Isa 46:13I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.
- Ps 48:11–13Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice, Because of your judgments.
- Obad 1:17But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.
- Ps 102:16For Yahweh has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.
- Rev 14:1I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
- Ezek 36:35–36They shall say, This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.
- Isa 14:32What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.
- Jer 33:10–11Yahweh says: “Yet again there shall be heard in this place, about which you say, ‘It is waste, without man and without animal, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without animal,’
- Ps 147:12–13Praise Yahweh, Jerusalem! Praise your God, Zion!
- Ps 102:13You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.
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