Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
For Thy servants have been pleased with her stones, And her dust they favour.
New American Standard Bible
And feel pity for her dust.
King James Version
For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.
Holman Bible
and favor its dust.
International Standard Version
Your servants take pleasure in its stones and delight in its debris.
A Conservative Version
For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity upon her dust.
American Standard Version
For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, And have pity upon her dust.
Amplified
For Your servants find [melancholy] pleasure in the stones [of her ruins]
And feel pity for her dust.
Darby Translation
For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour her dust.
Julia Smith Translation
For thy servants delighted in her stones, and they will compassionate her dust
King James 2000
For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and favor the dust thereof.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Your servants take pleasure in her stones, and show favor to its dust.
Modern King James verseion
For Your servants take pleasure in its stones, and pity its dust.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And why? Thy servants think upon her stones, and it pitieth them to see her in the dust.
NET Bible
Indeed, your servants take delight in her stones, and feel compassion for the dust of her ruins.
New Heart English Bible
For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.
The Emphasized Bible
Seeing that thy servants, take pleasure, in her stones, And, her dust, they favour:
Webster
For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favor the dust thereof.
World English Bible
For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.
References
Fausets
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 102:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Affliction In Light Of Eternity
13 Thou -- Thou risest -- Thou pitiest Zion, For the time to favour her, For the appointed time hath come. 14 For Thy servants have been pleased with her stones, And her dust they favour. 15 And nations fear the name of Jehovah, And all kings of the earth Thine honour,
Phrases
Cross References
Nehemiah 4:2
and saith before his brethren and the force of Samaria, yea, he saith, 'What are the weak Jews doing? are they left to themselves? do they sacrifice? do they complete in a day? do they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish? -- and they burnt!'
Ezra 1:5
And heads of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin rise, and the priests and the Levites, even every one whose spirit God hath waked, to go up to build the house of Jehovah, that is in Jerusalem;
Ezra 3:1-3
And the seventh month cometh, and the sons of Israel are in the cities, and the people are gathered, as one men, unto Jerusalem.
Ezra 7:27
Blessed is Jehovah, God of our fathers, who hath given such a thing as this in the heart of the king, to beautify the house of Jehovah that is in Jerusalem,
Nehemiah 1:3
and they say to me, 'Those left, who have been left of the captivity there in the province, are in great evil, and in reproach, and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burnt with fire.'
Nehemiah 2:3
and say to the king, 'Let the king to the age live! wherefore should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of the graves of my fathers, is a waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?'
Nehemiah 2:17
and I say unto them, 'Ye are seeing the evil that we are in, in that Jerusalem is waste, and its gates have been burnt with fire; come and we build the wall of Jerusalem, and we are not any more a reproach.'
Nehemiah 4:6
And we build the wall, and all the wall is joined -- unto its half, and the people have a heart to work.
Nehemiah 4:10
And Judah saith, 'The power of the burden-bearers hath become feeble, and the rubbish is abundant, and we are not able to build on the wall.'
Psalm 79:1
A Psalm of Asaph. O God, nations have come into Thy inheritance, They have defiled Thy holy temple, They made Jerusalem become heaps,
Psalm 79:7-10
For one hath devoured Jacob, And his habitation they have made desolate.
Psalm 137:5-6
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand forgetteth!
Daniel 9:16
O Lord, according to all Thy righteous acts, let turn back, I pray Thee, Thine anger and Thy fury from Thy city Jerusalem, Thy holy mount, for by our sins, and by the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Thy people are for a reproach to all our neighbours;