Psalm 102:14

Affliction In Light Of Eternity

¹³ You will rise up and have compassion on Zion,
for it is time to show favor to her—
the appointed time has come.
¹⁴ For Your servants take delight in its stones
and favor its dust. ¹⁵ Then the nations will fear the name of Yahweh,
and all the kings of the earth Your glory,

Take Pleasure In

Nehemiah 4:2

before his colleagues and the powerful men of Samaria, and said, “What are these pathetic Jews doing? Can they restore it by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they ever finish it? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”

Ezra 1:5

So the family leaders of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone God had motivated—prepared to go up and rebuild the Lord’s house in Jerusalem.

Ezra 3:1-3

By the seventh month, the Israelites had settled in their towns, and the people gathered together in Jerusalem.

Ezra 7:27

Praise Yahweh the God of our fathers, who has put it into the king’s mind to glorify the house of the Lord in Jerusalem,

Nehemiah 1:3

They said to me, “The remnant in the province, who survived the exile, are in great trouble and disgrace. Jerusalem’s wall has been broken down, and its gates have been burned down.”

Nehemiah 2:3

and replied to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should I not be sad when the city where my ancestors are buried lies in ruins and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”

Nehemiah 2:17

So I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins and its gates have been burned down. Come, let’s rebuild Jerusalem’s wall, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”

Nehemiah 4:6

So we rebuilt the wall until the entire wall was joined together up to half its height, for the people had the will to keep working.

Nehemiah 4:10

In Judah, it was said:

The strength of the laborer fails,
since there is so much rubble.
We will never be able
to rebuild the wall.

Psalm 79:1

A psalm of Asaph.God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance,
desecrated Your holy temple,
and turned Jerusalem into ruins.

Psalm 79:7-10

for they have devoured Jacob
and devastated his homeland.

Psalm 137:5-6

If I forget you, Jerusalem,
may my right hand forget its skill.

Daniel 9:16

Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, may Your anger and wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become an object of ridicule to all those around us.