Psalms 147:2
The Lord doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
Psalms 147:2 in other translations
| BSB | The LORD builds up Jerusalem; He gathers the exiles of Israel. |
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| WEB | The LORD builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts of Israel. |
| ASV | Jehovah doth build up Jerusalem; He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. |
| YLT | Building Jerusalem is Jehovah, The driven away of Israel He gathereth. |
| DARBY | Jehovah doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth the outcasts of Israel. |
| BBE | The Lord is building up Jerusalem; he makes all the outlaws of Israel come together. |
| Webster | The LORD buildeth up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. |
What does Psalms 147:2 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 147:1-11
Praising God is work that is its own wages. It is comely; it becomes us as reasonable creatures, much more as people in covenant with God. He gathers outcast sinners by his grace, and will bring them into his holy habitation. To those whom God heals with the consolations of his Spirit, he speaks peace, assures them their sins are pardoned. And for this, let others praise him also. Man's knowledge is soon ended; but…
Psalms 147:2 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 147:2
- Isaiah 56:8
The Lord God which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.
- Deuteronomy 30:3
That 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.
- Psalms 51:18
Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
- Psalms 102:20-22
To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death; To declare the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem; When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.
- Isaiah 62:7
And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
- Ephesians 2:12-19
That 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: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; …
- Jeremiah 32:37
Behold, 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:
- Ezekiel 39:27-28
When 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; Then shall they know that I am the Lord their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
- Isaiah 14:32
What 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 38:8
After 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.
- Ezekiel 36:24-38
For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. …
- Isaiah 27:13
And 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.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Context
- Psalms 147:1
Praise ye the Lord: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
- Psalms 147:2
The Lord doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
- Psalms 147:3
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
Psalms 147:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Jehová edifica á Jerusalem; á los echados de Israel recogerá. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | L’ Éternel bâtit Jérusalem; il rassemble les exilés d’Israël. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Jehova baut Jerusalem, die Vertriebenen Israels sammelt er. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quoniam confortavit seras portarum tuarum; benedixit filiis tuis in te. |