Parallel Verses

Amplified


For Your servants find [melancholy] pleasure in the stones [of her ruins]
And feel pity for her dust.

New American Standard Bible

Surely Your servants find pleasure in her stones
And feel pity for her dust.

King James Version

For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.

Holman Bible

For Your servants take delight in its stones
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.

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

For Thy servants have been pleased with her stones, And her dust they favour.

References

Fausets

Verse Info

Context Readings

Affliction In Light Of Eternity

13
You will arise and have compassion on Zion,
For it is time to be gracious and show favor to her;
Yes, the appointed time [the moment designated] has come.
14 
For Your servants find [melancholy] pleasure in the stones [of her ruins]
And feel pity for her dust.
15
So the nations will fear the name of the Lord,
And all the kings of the earth [will recognize] Your glory.


Cross References

Nehemiah 4:2

He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore it for themselves? Can they offer sacrifices? Can they finish in a day? Can they revive the stones from the heaps of dust and rubbish, even the ones that have been burned?”

Ezra 1:5

Then the heads of the fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and Levites, all those whose spirits God had stirred up, arose to go up and rebuild the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem.

Ezra 3:1-3

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

Ezra 7:27

Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers [said Ezra], who put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to adorn and glorify the house of the Lord in Jerusalem,

Nehemiah 1:3

They said to me, “The remnant there in the province who survived the captivity are in great distress and reproach; the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its [fortified] gates have been burned (destroyed) by fire.”

Nehemiah 2:3

and I said to the king, “Let the king live forever. Why should my face not be sad when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies desolate and its gates have been consumed by fire?”

Nehemiah 2:17

Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation that we are in—how Jerusalem is desolate and lies in ruins and its gates have been burned with fire. Come, and let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”

Nehemiah 4:6

So we built the wall and the entire wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a heart to work.

Nehemiah 4:10

Then [the leaders of] Judah said,

“The strength of the burden bearers is failing,
And there is much rubble;
We ourselves are unable
To rebuild the wall.”

Psalm 79:1

O God, the nations have invaded [the land of Your people] Your inheritance;
They have defiled Your sacred temple;
They have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

Psalm 79:7-10


For they have devoured Jacob
And made his pasture desolate.

Psalm 137:5-6


If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
Let my right hand forget [her skill with the harp].

Daniel 9:16

O Lord, in accordance with all Your righteous and just acts, please let Your anger and Your wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain. Because of our sins and the wickedness of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become an object of scorn and a contemptuous byword to all who are around us.

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