Psalms 51:18
Do good in Thy good pleasure with Zion, Thou dost build the walls of Jerusalem.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
In Context
Cross References
Nehemiah 2:17and I say unto them, 'Ye are seeing the evil that we are in, in that Jerusalem [is] waste, and its gates have been burnt with fire; come and we build the wall of Jerusalem, and we are not any more a reproach.'
Psalms 40:7Then said I, 'Lo, I have come,' In the roll of the book it is written of me,
Psalms 102:16For Jehovah hath builded Zion, He hath been seen in His honour,
Psalms 137:5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand forgetteth!
Isaiah 51:3For Jehovah hath comforted Zion, He hath comforted all her wastes, And He setteth her wilderness as Eden, And her desert as a garden of Jehovah, Joy, yea, gladness is found in her, Confession, and the voice of song.
Isaiah 62:1For Zion's sake I am not silent, And for Jerusalem's sake I do not rest, Till her righteousness go out as brightness, And her salvation, as a torch that burneth.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 51:15-19
Penitential Petitions. 14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. 15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth thy praise. 16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. 18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. 19 Then shalt thou… Read the whole commentary →