Psalm 147:2

New English Translation

The Lord rebuilds Jerusalem, and gathers the exiles of Israel.

Cross References

Nehemiah 6:15

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

Nehemiah 6:16

When all our enemies heard and all the nations who were around us saw this, they were greatly disheartened. They knew that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.

Nehemiah 7:4

Now the city was spread out and large, and there were not a lot of people in it. At that time houses had not been rebuilt.

Psalm 102:17

when he responds to the prayer of the destitute, and does not reject their request.

Psalm 51:18

Because you favor Zion, do what is good for her! Fortify the walls of Jerusalem!

Isaiah 14:32

How will they respond to the messengers of this nation? Indeed, the Lord has made Zion secure; the oppressed among his people will find safety in her.

Isaiah 27:13

At that time a large trumpet will be blown, and the ones lost in the land of Assyria will come, as well as the refugees in the land of Egypt. They will worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 56:8

The sovereign Lord says this, the one who gathers the dispersed of Israel: “I will still gather them up.”

Isaiah 62:7

Don’t allow him to rest until he reestablishes Jerusalem, until he makes Jerusalem the pride of the earth.

Jeremiah 31:10

Hear what the Lord has to say, O nations. Proclaim it in the faraway lands along the sea. Say, “The one who scattered Israel will regather them. He will watch over his people like a shepherd watches over his flock.”

Jeremiah 31:4

I will rebuild you, my dear children Israel, so that you will once again be built up. Once again you will take up the tambourine and join in the happy throng of dancers.

Jeremiah 32:37

‘I will certainly regather my people from all the countries where I will have exiled them in my anger, fury, and great wrath. I will bring them back to this place and allow them to live here in safety.

Ezekiel 38:8

After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come to a land restored from the ravages of war, with many peoples gathered on the mountains of Israel that had long been in ruins. Its people were brought out from the peoples, and all of them will be living securely.

Daniel 9:25

So know and understand: From the issuing of the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until an anointed one, a prince arrives, there will be a period of seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will again be built, with plaza and moat, but in distressful times.

Micah 4:6

“In that day,” says the Lord, “I will gather the lame, and assemble the outcasts whom I injured.

Zechariah 8:7

“The Lord who rules over all asserts, ‘I am about to save my people from the lands of the east and the west.

Matthew 16:18

And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.

Deuteronomy 30:3

the Lord your God will reverse your captivity and have pity on you. He will turn and gather you from all the peoples among whom he has scattered you.