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Psalms 147:2

Jerusalem
Fellowship and the church

1 Hallelujah! How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and lovely to praise Him!

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

3 He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

4 He determines the number of the stars; He calls them each by name.

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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.

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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
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.
DARBY
Jehovah doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth the outcasts of Israel.
BLB
The One building up Jerusalem [is] YHWH, [and] He gathers together the exiles of Israel,
ÅB
Herren bygger Jerusalem, de bortdrevne av Israel samler han.
OTB
Herren gjenoppretter Jerusalem;
Han samler Israels bortførte.
B1930
Herren bygger Jerusalem, de bortdrevne av Israel samler han.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Isaiah 56:8

    Thus declares the Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel: “I will gather to them still others besides those already gathered.”

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  • Deuteronomy 30:3

    then 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.

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  • Psalms 51:18

    In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.

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  • Psalms 102:20–22

    to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,

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  • Isaiah 62:7

    nor give Him any rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.

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  • Ephesians 2:12–19

    remember 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.

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  • Jeremiah 32:37

    I 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.

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  • Ezekiel 39:27–28

    When 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.

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