Psalms 51:18
In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.
BSB
ASV
Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: Build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
KJV
Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion. Let blessings according to thy wont be poured upon thy holy hill and chosen city. Zion was David's favourite spot, whereon he had hoped to erect a temple. The ruling passion is so strong on him, that when he has discharged his conscience he must have a word for Zion. He felt he had hindered the project of honouring the Lord there as he desired, but he prayed God still to let the place of his ark be glorious, and to establish his worship and his worshipping people.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Philippians 2:13For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.
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equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.
So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of…
Through
Ephesians 1:5He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,
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For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,
to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.
