World English Bible
Psalms 51:18
“Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.”
Psalms 51:18 in the King James Version
Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.Read Psalms 51:18 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — Psalms 51
For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.
Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar. For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, "David has come to Abimelech's house.
Cross references for Psalms 51:18
- Psalms 102:16
For Yahweh has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.
- Philippians 2:13
For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
- Zechariah 2:5
For I,' says Yahweh, 'will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.
- Ephesians 1:5
having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
- Luke 12:32
Don't be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
- Psalms 122:6-9
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper. Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces. For my brothers' and companions' sakes, I will now say, "Peace be within you." For the sake of the house of Ya...
- Isaiah 62:6-7
I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest, and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
- Nehemiah 2:17
Then I said to them, "You see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won't be disgraced.
- Psalms 25:22
Redeem Israel, God, out all of his troubles. By David.
- Isaiah 58:12
Those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
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