Bible Verses About Church (2): Love for

The Lord out of Zion shall blesse thee, and thou shalt see the wealth of Ierusalem all the dayes of thy life.

Yea, thou shalt see thy childrens children, and peace vpon Israel.

By the riuers of Babel we sate, and there wee wept, when we remembred Zion.

Wee hanged our harpes vpon the willowes in the middes thereof.

Then they that ledde vs captiues, required of vs songs and mirth, when wee had hanged vp our harpes, saying, Sing vs one of the songs of Zion.

Howe shall we sing, said we, a song of the Lord in a strange land?

If I forget thee, O Ierusalem, let my right hand forget to play.

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth: yea, if I preferre not Ierusalem to my chiefe ioy.

I haue set watchmen vpon thy walles, O Ierusalem, which all the day and all the night continually shall not cease: ye that are mindfull of the Lord, keepe not silence,

And giue him no rest, till hee repaire and vntill hee set vp Ierusalem the prayse of the worlde.

As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you, and ye shall be comforted in Ierusalem.

And when ye see this, your hearts shall reioyce, and your bones shall flourish like an herbe: and the hand of the Lord shall be knowen among his seruants, and his indignation against his enemies.

Ye that haue escaped the sworde, goe away, stand not still: remember the Lord a farre of, and let Ierusalem come into your minde.

Wee are confounded because wee haue heard reproch: shame hath couered our faces, for straungers are come into the Sanctuaries of the Lordes House.

Mine eye casteth out riuers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Mine eye droppeth without stay and ceaseth not,

Till the Lord looke downe, and beholde from heauen.

Mine eye breaketh mine heart because of all the daughters of my citie.