Psalm 147:2

Translations

Modern

The LORD builds up Jerusalem; He gathers the exiles of Israel.

Traditional

The Lord doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.

Literal

The One building up Jerusalem is YHWH, and He gathers together the exiles of Israel,

Latin

Ædificans Jerusalem Dominus, dispersiones Israëlis congregabit:

Original

Hebrew

English

The LORD builds up Jerusalem; He gathers the exiles of Israel.

Notes

Psalms 147:2–6

The psalmist remembers how the Lord restored Jerusalem and brought back his people who had suffered in exile.

Psalms 147:1–20

The psalmist calls for the Lord to be praised for restoring and blessing Zion, caring for the poor, displaying his power over nature, and revealing himself to his people.

Psalms 146:1–150:6

The Psalter ends with five hallelujah psalms, so named because each begins and ends with Praise the LORD! (Hebrew haleluyah).

Related verses

Deuteronomy 30:3
…then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you.
Isaiah 56:8
Thus declares the Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel: “I will gather to them still others besides those already gathered.”
Psalm 51:18
In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.
Isaiah 62:7
…nor give Him any rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.
Psalm 102:20–22
…to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,
Ezekiel 39:27–28
When I bring them back from the peoples and gather them out of the lands of their enemies, I will show My holiness in them in the sight of many nations.
Isaiah 14:32
What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”
Jeremiah 32:37
I will surely gather My people from all the lands to which I have banished them in My furious anger and great wrath, and I will return them to this place and make them dwell in safety.
Ephesians 2:12–19
…remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
Ezekiel 38:8
After a long time you will be summoned. In the latter years you will enter a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and all now dwell securely.
Isaiah 27:13
And in that day a great ram’s horn will sound, and those who were perishing in Assyria will come forth with those who were exiles in Egypt. And they will worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 36:24–38
For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and I will bring you back into your own land.

People

Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes

Places

Jerusalem: The capital of Israel, a holy city for three religions

Glossary

Hallel Music Outcast Psalms, Book of

Topics

God: Preserver Praise: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To

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