Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Your servants take pleasure in its stones and delight in its debris.
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.
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
For Thy servants have been pleased with her stones, And her dust they favour.
References
Fausets
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 102:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Affliction In Light Of Eternity
13 You will arise to extend compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor the appointed time has come. 14 Your servants take pleasure in its stones and delight in its debris. 15 Nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth, your splendor.
Phrases
Cross References
Nehemiah 4:2
He addressed his allies and the Samaritan officials, saying "What are these pathetic Jews doing? Are they intending to rebuild it by themselves? Do they intend to offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a single day? Can they make stones from this burned out rubble?"
Ezra 1:5
In response, the heads of the families of Judah and Benjamin, the priests and descendants of Levi, and all those who had been prompted by God, prepared to travel to rebuild the Temple of the LORD, which was in Jerusalem.
Ezra 3:1-3
Seven months after the Israelis had settled in their cities, they all gathered together in Jerusalem as a united body.
Ezra 7:27
Blessed be the LORD God of our ancestors, who placed this decree into the king's heart to beautify the Temple of the LORD in Jerusalem
Nehemiah 1:3
They told me, "The survivors of the captivity there in the province are living in great distress and shame. Furthermore, the Jerusalem wall remains broken down and its gates have been burned by fire."
Nehemiah 2:3
Then I was filled with fear. I replied to the king, "May the king live forever. Why shouldn't I be troubled, since the city where my ancestral sepulchers are located lies waste, with its gates burned by fire?"
Nehemiah 2:17
Later I told them, "You all are watching the predicament we're in, how Jerusalem lies desolate, with its gates burned by fire. Let's rebuild the Jerusalem wall so we're no longer a disgrace."
Nehemiah 4:6
So we rebuilt the wall, completing it halfway up, because the people were committed to working.
Nehemiah 4:10
Meanwhile, the people of Judah said, "The builders are tired and there's so much rubble that we can't reconstruct the wall!"
Psalm 79:1
God, nations have invaded your land to desecrate your holy Temple, to destroy Jerusalem,
Psalm 79:7-10
For they consumed Jacob, making his dwelling place desolate.
Psalm 137:5-6
If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.
Daniel 9:16
Lord, in view of all your righteous acts, please turn your anger and wrath away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. Because of our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people have become an embarrassment to all of those around us.