Psalms 102:14
What does Psalms 102:14 mean?
A plain-English look at Psalms 102:14 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, And have pity upon her dust.
KJV
King James Version · 1611For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, And have pity upon her dust.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949For your servants take pleasure in her stones, looking with love on her dust.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862For Thy servants have been pleased with her stones, And her dust they favour.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752For he knoweth our frame. He remembereth that we are dust:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour her dust.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezra 3:1
And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
- Nehemiah 4:2
And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned?
- Nehemiah 2:17
Then said I unto them, Ye see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
- Nehemiah 4:6
So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto half the height thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
- Ezra 7:27
Blessed be Jehovah, the God of our fathers, who hath put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of Jehovah which is in Jerusalem;
- Psalms 79:1
O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance; Thy holy temple have they defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
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