Zion

ADONAI will send your powerful scepter out from Tziyon, so that you will rule over your enemies around you.

A song of ascents: When ADONAI restored Tziyon's fortunes, we thought we were dreaming.

May ADONAI bless you from Tziyon! May you see Yerushalayim prosper all the days of your life,

Let all who hate Tziyon be thrown back in confusion.

For ADONAI has chosen Tziyon, he has wanted it as his home.

It is like the dew of Hermon that settles on the mountains of Tziyon. For it was there that ADONAI ordained the blessing of everlasting life.

May ADONAI, the maker of heaven and earth, bless you from Tziyon.

Blessed be ADONAI out of Tziyon, he who dwells in Yerushalayim! Halleluyah!

By the rivers of Bavel we sat down and wept as we remembered Tziyon.

when those who had taken us captive asked us to sing them a song; our tormentors demanded joy from us -"Sing us one of the songs from Tziyon!"

ADONAI will reign forever, your God, Tziyon, through all generations. Halleluyah!

Glorify ADONAI, Yerushalayim! Praise your God, Tziyon!

Let Isra'el rejoice in their maker, let Tziyon's children take joy in their king.

Daughters of Tziyon, come out, and gaze upon King Shlomo, wearing the crown with which his mother crowned him on his wedding day, his day of joy!

The daughter of Tziyon is left like a shack in a vineyard, like a shed in a cucumber field, like a city under siege."

Tziyon will be redeemed by justice; and those in her who repent, by righteousness.

Many peoples will go and say, "Come, let's go up to the mountain of ADONAI, to the house of the God of Ya'akov! He will teach us about his ways, and we will walk in his paths." For out of Tziyon will go forth Torah, the word of ADONAI from Yerushalayim.

Moreover ADONAI says: "Because Tziyon's women are so proud, walking with their heads in the air and throwing seductive glances, moving with mincing steps and jingling their anklets

Adonai will strike the crown of the heads of Tziyon's women with sores, and ADONAI will expose their private parts."

Those left in Tziyon and remaining in Yerushalayim will be called holy, and everyone in Yerushalayim written down for life.

When Adonai washes away the filth of the women of Tziyon and cleanses Yerushalayim from the blood shed in it with a blast of searing judgment,

Therefore Adonai ELOHIM-Tzva'ot says: "My people living in Tziyon, don't be afraid of Ashur, even when he strikes you with a stick and raises his staff against you, the way it was in Egypt.

This very day he will stop at Nov; and he will shake his fist at the mountain of the daughter of Tziyon, at the hill of Yerushalayim.

Shout and sing for joy, you who live in Tziyon; for the Holy One of Isra'el is with you in his greatness!"

And what is one to answer the messengers of the nation? That ADONAI founded Tziyon, and there the poor of his people will find refuge.