Bible Verses About Church (2): Love for

May the LORD bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

On the willows in its midst, we hung up our harps.

For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

How can we sing the LORD’s song in a foreign land?

If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill.

Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you; if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.

I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on the LORD, take no rest,

and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like the tender grass: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.

You who have escaped the sword, go, don’t stand still; remember the LORD from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

We are confounded, because we have heard reproach; confusion has covered our faces: for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of the LORD’s house.

My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

My eye pours down, and doesn’t cease, without any intermission,

Until the LORD look down, and see from heaven.

My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.