Bible Verses About Church (2)

You will arise and take pity on Tziyon, for the time has come to have mercy on her; the time determined has come.

For your servants love her very stones; they take pity even on her dust.

For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven ADONAI surveys the earth

to listen to the sighing of the prisoner, to set free those who are sentenced to death,

to proclaim the name of ADONAI in Tziyon and his praise in Yerushalayim

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

Our mouths were full of laughter, and our tongues shouted for joy. Among the nations it was said, "ADONAI has done great things for them!"

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

and may you live to see your children's children! Shalom on Isra'el.

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

"This is my resting-place forever, I will live here because I so much want to.

I will bless it with plenty of meat, I will give its poor their fill of food.

Its cohanim I will clothe with salvation, and its faithful will shout for joy.

A song of ascents. By David: Oh, how good, how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in harmony.

It is like fragrant oil on the head that runs down over the beard, over the beard of Aharon, and flows down on the collar of his robes.

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.

A song of ascents: Come, bless ADONAI, all you servants of ADONAI, who serve each night in the house of ADONAI.

Lift your hands toward the sanctuary, and bless ADONAI.

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

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

We had hung up our lyres on the willows that were there,

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!"

How can we sing a song about ADONAI here on foreign soil?

If I forget you, Yerushalayim, may my right hand wither away!

May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I fail to remember you, if I fail to count Yerushalayim the greatest of all my joys.