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Psalm 51:18–19

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51:18Because you favor Zion, do what is good for her!46

Fortify47 the walls of Jerusalem!48

51:19Then you will accept49 the proper sacrifices, burnt sacrifices and whole offerings;

then bulls will be sacrificed50 on your altar.51

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Footnotes

  1. 46 Heb “do what is good for Zion in your favor.”
  2. 47 Or “Build.” The imperfect verbal form is used here to express the psalmist’s wish or request.
  3. 48 For location see ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; .
  4. 49 Or “desire, take delight in.”
  5. 50 Heb “then they will offer up bulls.” The third plural subject is indefinite.
  6. 51 Verses 18–19 appear to reflect the exilic period, when the city’s walls lay in ruins and the sacrificial system had been disrupted.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;

build up the walls of Jerusalem;

then will you delight in right sacrifices,

in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings;

then bulls will be offered on your altar.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

May it please you to prosper Zion,

to build up the walls of Jerusalem.

Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous,

in burnt offerings offered whole;

then bulls will be offered on your altar.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

In your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper;

build the walls of Jerusalem.

Then you will delight in righteous sacrifices,

whole burnt offerings;

then bulls will be offered on your altar.

NLTNew Living Translation

Look with favor on Zion and help her;

rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.

Then you will be pleased with sacrifices offered in the right spirit—

with burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings.

Then bulls will again be sacrificed on your altar.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Do good in your favor toward Zion.

Build the walls of Jerusalem.

Then you will delight in righteous sacrifices,

burnt offering and whole burnt offering.

Then bulls will be offered on your altar.

KJV 1900King James Version

Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion:

Build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering:

Then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.