Bible Verses About Church (2)

There is a river whose streams gladden the city of God, the holy habitation of 'Elyon

God is in the city. It will not be moved when daybreak comes, God will help it.

A song. A psalm of the descendants of Korach: Great is ADONAI and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, his holy mountain,

beautiful in its elevation, the joy of all the earth, Mount Tziyon, in the far north, the city of the great king.

Let Mount Tziyon rejoice, let the daughters of Y'hudah be glad, because of your judgment [on the enemy].

Walk through Tziyon, go all around it; count how many towers it has.

Note its ramparts, pass through its citadels, so that you can tell generations to come

For God will save Tziyon, he will build the cities of Y'hudah. [His people] will settle there and possess it.

The descendants of his servants will inherit it, and those who love his name will live there.

For the leader. On the gittit. A psalm of the sons of Korach: How deeply loved are your dwelling-places, ADONAI-Tzva'ot!

My soul yearns, yes, faints with longing for the courtyards of ADONAI; my heart and body cry for joy to the living God.

As the sparrow finds herself a home and the swallow her nest, where she lays her young, [so my resting-place is] by your altars, ADONAI-Tzva'ot, my king and my God.

How happy are those who live in your house; they never cease to praise you! (Selah)

How happy the man whose strength is in you, in whose heart are [pilgrim] highways.

Passing through the [dry] Baka Valley, they make it a place of springs, and the early rain clothes it with blessings.

They go from strength to strength and appear before God in Tziyon.

ADONAI, God of armies, hear my prayer; listen, God of Ya'akov. (Selah)

God, see our shield [the king]; look at the face of your anointed.

Better a day in your courtyards than a thousand [days elsewhere]. Better just standing at the door of my God's house than living in the tents of the wicked.

A psalm of the sons of Korach. A song: On the holy mountains is [the city's] foundation.

ADONAI loves the gates of Tziyon more than all the dwellings in Ya'akov.

Glorious things are said about you, city of God. (Selah)

I count Rahav and Bavel among those who know me; Of P'leshet, Tzor and Ethiopia [they will say], "This one was born there."

But of Tziyon it will be said, "This one and that was born in it, for the Most High himself establishes it."

When he registers the peoples, ADONAI will record, "This one was born there."(Selah)