Psalm 147:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² The Lord builds up Jerusalem; he gathers the outcasts of Israel.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² The Lord is building up Jerusalem; He is gathering together the exiles of Israel.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Jehovah doth build up Jerusalem; He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.

Common English Bible

² The LORD rebuilds Jerusalem, gathering up Israel’s exiles.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² For he has reinforced the bars of your gates. He has blessed your sons within you.

Psalm 147:2 Cross References

Nehemiah 6:15

So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.

Nehemiah 6:16

And when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations round about us were afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem; for they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.

Nehemiah 7:4

The city was wide and large, but the people within it were few and no houses had been built.

Psalm 102:17

he will regard the prayer of the destitute, and will not despise their supplication.

Psalm 51:18

Do good to Zion in thy good pleasure; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem,

Isaiah 14:32

What will one answer the messengers of the nation? “The Lord has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge.”

Isaiah 27:13

And in that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

Isaiah 56:8

Thus says the Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, I will gather yet others to him besides those already gathered.”

Isaiah 62:7

and give him no rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth.

Jeremiah 31:10

“Hear the word of the Lord, O nations, and declare it in the coastlands afar off; say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.’

Jeremiah 31:4

Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel! Again you shall adorn yourself with timbrels, and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.

Jeremiah 32:37

Behold, I will gather them from all the countries to which I drove them in my anger and my wrath and in great indignation; I will bring them back to this place, and I will make them dwell in safety.

Ezekiel 38:8

After many days you will be mustered; in the latter years you will go against the land that is restored from war, the land where people were gathered from many nations upon the mountains of Israel, which had been a continual waste; its people were brought out from the nations and now dwell securely, all of them.

Daniel 9:25

Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time.

Micah 4:6

In that day, says the Lord, I will assemble the lame and gather those who have been driven away, and those whom I have afflicted;

Zechariah 8:7

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold, I will save my people from the east country and from the west country;

Matthew 16:18

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it.

Deuteronomy 30:3

then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes, and have compassion upon you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.