Psalms 102:14
12 But You, O LORD, sit enthroned forever; Your renown endures to all generations.
13 You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor— the appointed time has come.
For Your servants delight in her stones and take pity on her dust.
15 So the nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth will fear Your glory.
16 For the LORD will rebuild Zion; He has appeared in His glory.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For Your servants delight in her stones and take pity on her dust.
- KJV
- For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.
- WEB
- For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.
- ASV
- For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, And have pity upon her dust.
- DARBY
- For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour her dust.
- BLB
- How Your servants take delight [in] her stones—even her dust they favor!
- ÅB
- For dine tjenere elsker dets steiner, og de ynkes over dets støv.
- OTB
- Sannelig, dine tjenere setter pris på hennes steiner,
Og har medfølelse med hennes støv. - B1930
- For dine tjenere elsker dets stener, og de ynkes over dets støv.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Nehemiah 4:2
before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”
Read in contextEzra 1:5
So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—prepared to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.
Read in contextNehemiah 2:17
Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned down. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”
Read in contextNehemiah 1:3
And they told me, “The remnant who survived the exile are there in the province, in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”
Read in contextNehemiah 4:10
Meanwhile, the people of Judah said: “The strength of the laborer fails, and there is so much rubble that we will never be able to rebuild the wall.”
Read in contextNehemiah 4:6
So we rebuilt the wall until all of it was joined together up to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.
Read in contextPsalms 137:5–6
If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.
Read in contextPsalms 79:1
The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
Read in context