KJV King James Version
The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
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Psalm 147:2
The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The LORD builds up Jerusalem; He gathers the exiles of Israel.
WEB World English Bible
Yahweh builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.
ASV American Standard Version
Jehovah doth build up Jerusalem; He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Building Jerusalem is Jehovah, The driven away of Israel He gathereth.
Surrounding context — Psalm 147
1 Praise ye the LORD: for [it is] good to sing praises unto our God; for [it is] pleasant; [and] praise is comely.
2 The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
4 He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by [their] names.
5 Great [is] our Lord, and of great power: his understanding [is] infinite.
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Isaiah 56:8The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather [others] to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.Deuteronomy 30:3That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.Psalm 51:18Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.Psalm 102:20-22To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;Isaiah 62:7And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.Isaiah 14:32What shall [one] then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.Ezekiel 38:8After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land [that is] brought back from the sword, [and is] gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.Ephesians 2:12-19That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:Ezekiel 39:27-28When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;Jeremiah 32:37Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:Isaiah 27:13And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.Jeremiah 31:4Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.Ezekiel 36:24-38For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.Ezra 2:64-65The whole congregation together [was] forty and two thousand three hundred [and] threescore,Nehemiah 7:4Now the city [was] large and great: but the people [were] few therein, and the houses [were] not builded.Psalm 102:13-16Thou shalt arise, [and] have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.Isaiah 11:11-12And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.Nehemiah 3:1-16Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.
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