the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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Psalms 102:14
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For your servants take delight in its stonesand favor its dust.
For your servants take pleasure in her stones, And have pity on her dust.
For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.
For your servants hold her stones dear and have pity on her dust.
Your servants love even her stones; they even care about her dust.
Indeed, your servants take delight in her stones, and feel compassion for the dust of her ruins.
For Your servants find [melancholy] pleasure in the stones [of her ruins] And feel pity for her dust.
Surely Your servants take pleasure in her stones, And feel pity for her dust.
For your servants take pleasure in her stones, And have pity on her dust.
For thy seruants delite in the stones thereof, and haue pitie on the dust thereof.
For Your slaves find pleasure in its stonesAnd show grace to its dust—
For Your servants delight in her stones and take pity on her dust.
We, your servants, love each stone in the city, and we are sad to see them lying in the dirt.
You will arise and take pity on Tziyon, for the time has come to have mercy on her; the time determined has come.
For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour her dust.
Your servants love her stones. They love even the dust of that city!
For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favor the dust thereof.
Your servants love her, even though she is destroyed; they have pity on her, even though she is in ruins.
Your servants take pleasure in her stones, and show favor to its dust.
For Your servants take pleasure in its stones, and pity its dust.
And why? thy seruauntes haue a loue to hir stones, & it pitieth them to se her in the dust.
For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, And have pity upon her dust.
For your servants take pleasure in her stones, looking with love on her dust.
Thou wilt arise, and have compassion upon Zion; for it is time to be gracious unto her, for the appointed time is come.
For thy seruants take pleasure in her stones: and fauour the dust therof.
For thy servants have taken pleasure in her stones, and they shall pity her dust.
For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity upon her dust.
For the stones therof plesiden thi seruauntis; and thei schulen haue merci on the lond therof.
For your slaves take pleasure in her stones, And have pity on her dust.
For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favor the dust thereof.
For Your servants take pleasure in her stones, And show favor to her dust.
For your people love every stone in her walls and cherish even the dust in her streets.
For Your servants respect her stones and show pity for her dust.
For your servants hold its stones dear, and have pity on its dust.
Seeing that thy servants, take pleasure, in her stones, And, her dust, they favour:
(101-15) For the stones thereof have pleased thy servants: and they shall have pity on the earth thereof.
For thy servants hold her stones dear, and have pity on her dust.
For Thy servants have been pleased with her stones, And her dust they favour.
Surely Your servants find pleasure in her stones And feel pity for her dust.
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Psalms 79:1, Psalms 79:7-10, Psalms 137:5, Psalms 137:6, Ezra 1:5, Ezra 3:1-3, Ezra 7:27, Nehemiah 1:3, Nehemiah 2:3, Nehemiah 2:17, Nehemiah 4:2, Nehemiah 4:6, Nehemiah 4:10, Daniel 9:16
Reciprocal: Ezra 3:11 - because Nehemiah 1:4 - I sat down Nehemiah 2:20 - The God Psalms 74:3 - the perpetual Psalms 122:9 - I will seek Isaiah 51:3 - all Jeremiah 31:17 - General Jeremiah 41:5 - to the Jeremiah 51:50 - remember Daniel 9:19 - defer Haggai 1:4 - and
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For thy servants take pleasure in her stones,.... Meaning not Cyrus and Darius, who gave leave and orders for the rebuilding of the city and temple of Jerusalem, as some; nor Nehemiah, and Ezra, and others, who took more pleasure in the stones and rubbish of the temple, as it lay in ruins, than in all the stately palaces in Babylon; and who were very desirous of, and took delight in gathering these stones, and putting them together again, as others; but, the ministers of the Gospel, and other Christians, in the latter day, who will take pleasure in the great number of converts that there will then be, who, as lively stones, will be built up a spiritual house; and especially when those stones shall be laid with fair colours, and the headstone shall be brought in with acclamations, crying, Grace, grace unto it; see 1 Peter 2:5.
and favour the dust thereof; which sometimes designs multitudes,
Numbers 23:10, perhaps here it may denote the meanest of the Lord's people, who will be regarded, and not despised by his servants; but they will show favour to them, do them all the good they can, and wish well to them, and pray for their prosperity, and for the peace of Zion; that God would make it the joy of the whole earth; and when there shall be such a delight in the stones and dust of Zion, and a spirit of grace and supplication poured forth upon the servants of the Lord, to pray for the promised glory and happiness of it, it will be a token for good, and an intimation that the set time to favour her is at hand; which seems to be the sense of the psalmist: such great reverence and respect have the greatest of the wise men among the Jews for the land of Israel, literally understood, that they kiss the borders, the stones of it, and roll themselves in its dust a, having perhaps in mind this passage of Scripture.
a Maimon. Hilchot Melachim, c. 5. s. 10.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For thy servants take pleasure in her stones - Those who profess to be thy servants; thy friends. This was the “evidence” to the mind of the psalmist that God was about to visit his people, and to rebuild Jerusalem. It was an “awakened interest” among the professed people of God, leading them to manifest their love for Zion, and for all that pertained to her - a love for the very stones that lay in undistinguished heaps where the city once stood - the piles of rubbish where the walls and dwellings had once been. The people of God in their captivity began to look with strong interest on these very ruins, and with an earnest wish that from these ruins the city may again arise, and the walls be rebuilt.
And favor the dust thereof - literally, pity - or, show compassion for. They no longer look with indifference on these ruins of Zion. They look with a tender heart on the very dust of those ruins. They feel that a wrong has been done to Zion; they ardently desire its restoration to its former splendor and glory. They long for a return to it as to their home. They are weary with their captivity, and they are anxiously waiting for the time when they may revisit their native land. This would seem to refer to an awakened interest on the subject, caused perhaps in part by the fact that it could be ascertained (see Daniel 9:2) that the period of the captivity was about to end, and partly by an influence on their hearts from on high, awakening in them a deeper love for Zion - a revival of pure religion. The practical truth taught here is, that an indication of a coming revival of religion is often manifested by the increased attention to the subject among its professed friends; by the desire in their hearts that it may be so; by tenderness, pity, compassion among them in view of abounding desolations, the coldness of the church, and the prevalence of iniquity; by their looking with interest on that which had before been neglected, like shapeless ruins - the prayer-meeting, the communion, the sanctuary; by a conscious returning love in their hearts for all that pertains to religion, however unimportant it may be in the eyes of the world, or however it may be despised. A surrounding world would look with unconcern on the ruins of Jerusalem; a friend of God, in whose heart religion was revived, would look with the most tender concern even on that rubbish, and those ruins. So it is in a revival of religion, when God is about to visit his church in mercy. Everything in regard to the church becomes an object of deep interest.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 102:14. Thy servants take pleasure in her stones — Though Jerusalem was at this time in a heap of ruins, yet even her rubbish was sacred in the eyes of the pious; for this had been the city of the great King.
