Zion

The LORD extends Your mighty scepter from Zion: “Rule in the midst of Your enemies.”

When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.

May the LORD bless you from Zion, that you may see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life,

May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame.

For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:

It is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD has bestowed the blessing of life forevermore.

May the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth, bless you from Zion.

Blessed be the LORD from Zion— He who dwells in Jerusalem. Hallelujah!

By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”

The LORD reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Hallelujah!

Exalt the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion!

Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King.

Come out, O daughters of Zion, and gaze at King Solomon, wearing the crown his mother bestowed on the day of his wedding— the day of his heart’s rejoicing.

And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.

Zion will be redeemed with justice, her repentant ones with righteousness.

And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty— walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—

the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”

Whoever remains in Zion and whoever is left in Jerusalem will be called holy— all in Jerusalem who are recorded among the living—

when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: “O My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear Assyria, who strikes you with a rod and lifts his staff against you as the Egyptians did.

Yet today they will halt at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.

Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”

What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”