Psalms 147:2 · KJV
“The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.”
— Psalms 147:2
Praise ye the LORD: for {it is} good to sing praises unto our God; for {it is} pleasant; {and} praise is comely.
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. {wounds: Heb. griefs}
Psalms 147 — Context
Praise ye the LORD: for {it is} good to sing praises unto our God; for {it is} pleasant; {and} praise is comely.
2The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
3He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. {wounds: Heb. griefs}
4He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by {their} names.
Cross References
Isaiah 56:8
The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather {others} to him, beside those that are gathered unto him. {beside...: Heb. to his gathered}
Deuteronomy 30:3
That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
Psalms 51:18
Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
Isaiah 62:7
And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. {rest: Heb. silence}
Psalms 102:20-22
To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death; {those...: Heb. the children of death}
Ezekiel 38:8
After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land {that is} brought back from the sword, {and is} gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
Ezekiel 39:27-28
When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
Isaiah 14:32
What shall {one} then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it. {trust...: or, betake themselves unto it}