Psalm 102:14

Affliction In Light Of Eternity

¹³ Thou wilt rise up, thou wilt have mercy upon Zion: for it is the time to be gracious to her, for the set time is come. ¹⁴ For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour her dust. ¹⁵ And the nations shall fear the name of Jehovah, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.

Take Pleasure In

Nehemiah 4:2

And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? shall they be permitted to go on? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, when they are burned?

Ezra 1:5

And the chief fathers of Judah and Benjamin rose up, and the priests, and the Levites, even all those whose spirit God had stirred, to go up to build the house of Jehovah which is at Jerusalem.

Ezra 3:1-3

And when the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered together as one man to Jerusalem.

Ezra 7:27

Blessed be Jehovah the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of Jehovah which is at Jerusalem;

Nehemiah 1:3

And they said to me, Those who remain, that are left of the captivity there in the province, are in great affliction and reproach; and the wall of Jerusalem is in ruins, and its gates are burned with fire.

Nehemiah 2:3

And I said to the king, Let the king live for ever! Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lies waste, and its gates are consumed with fire?

Nehemiah 2:17

And I said to them, Ye see the distress that we are in, that Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.

Nehemiah 4:6

But we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to the half thereof; for the people had a mind to work.

Nehemiah 4:10

And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens faileth, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build at the wall.

Psalm 79:1

{A Psalm of Asaph.} O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance: thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

Psalm 79:7-10

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.

Psalm 137:5-6

If I forget thee, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill;

Daniel 9:16

Lord, according to all thy righteousnesses, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain; for because of our sins, and because of the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all round about us.