Psalm 102:14

Translations

Modern

For Your servants delight in her stones and take pity on her dust.

Traditional

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

Literal

How Your servants take delight in her stones—even her dust they favor!

Latin

…quoniam placuerunt servis tuis lapides ejus, et terræ ejus miserebuntur.

Original

Hebrew

English

For Your servants delight in her stones and take pity on her dust.

Notes

Psalms 102:12–17

The topic changes from the psalmist’s troubles to the Lord’s glory. A vision of the Lord’s compassionate kingship gives him confidence in Zion’s future.

Psalms 102:1–28

A weak and suffering person prays for the Lord's mercy on Jerusalem and for his presence with its people.

Theme notes and profiles

David Psalms of Suffering The Poor and Needy in the Psalms

Related verses

Nehemiah 4:2
…before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”
Ezra 1:5
So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—prepared to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 2:3
…and replied to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should I not be sad when the city where my fathers are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”
Nehemiah 2:17
Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned down. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”
Psalm 79:1
A Psalm of Asaph. The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
Ezra 7:27
Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put into the heart of the king to so honor the house of the LORD in Jerusalem,
Nehemiah 4:10
Meanwhile, the people of Judah said: “The strength of the laborer fails, and there is so much rubble that we will never be able to rebuild the wall.”
Psalm 79:7–10
…for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.
Nehemiah 1:3
And they told me, “The remnant who survived the exile are there in the province, in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.”
Ezra 3:1–3
By the seventh month, the Israelites had settled in their towns, and the people assembled as one man in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 4:6
So we rebuilt the wall until all of it was joined together up to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.
Psalm 137:5–6
If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.

Glossary

David Mercy Music Psalms, Book of

Topics

Church: Love For Church: Prophecies Concerning Prosperity of Church: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Cities: Built of Stone and Wood Jesus, the Christ: Prophecies Concerning Universality of the Kingdom of The Jews: Saints Remember

Psalm 102:14

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