Psalms 147:2

In 11 translations

BSB

The LORD builds up Jerusalem; He gathers the exiles of Israel.

KJV

The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.

WEB

Yahweh builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.

ASV

Jehovah doth build up Jerusalem; He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.

LSV

YHWH [is] building Jerusalem, || He gathers the driven away of Israel.

YLT

Building Jerusalem [is] Jehovah, The driven away of Israel He gathereth.

DBY

Jehovah doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth the outcasts of Israel.

DRC146:2

The Lord buildeth up Jerusalem: he will gather together the dispersed of Israel.

GNV

The Lord doth builde vp Ierusalem, and gather together the dispersed of Israel.

JPS

The LORD doth build up Jerusalem, He gathereth together the dispersed of Israel;

LXXE146:2

The Lord builds up Jerusalem; and he will gather together the dispersed of Israel.

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WLC

בּוֹנֵ֣ה יְרוּשָׁלִַ֣ם יְהוָ֑ה נִדְחֵ֖י יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל יְכַנֵּֽס׃

LXX-Br146:2

Οἰκοδομῶν Ἱερουσαλὴμ ὁ Κύριος, καὶ τὰς διασπορὰς τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ ἐπισυνάξει·

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• Deuteronomy 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.
• Isaiah 56:8Thus declares the Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel: “I will gather to them still others besides those already gathered.”
• Psalms 51:18In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.
• Psalms 102:20–22to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death, that they may proclaim the name of the LORD in Zion and praise Him in Jerusalem, when peoples and kingdoms assemble to serve the LORD.
• Isaiah 62:7nor give Him any rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.
• Ezekiel 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. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God, when I regather…
• Ezekiel 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…
• Jeremiah 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.
• Ephesians 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. But now in Christ Jesus you…
• Isaiah 14:32What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”
• Jeremiah 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.
• Ezekiel 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. I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from…
• Isaiah 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.
• Isaiah 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. He…
• Nehemiah 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…
• Ezra 2:64–65The whole assembly numbered 42,360, in addition to their 7,337 menservants and maidservants, as well as their 200 male and female singers.

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