Zion

The rod of thy strength doth Jehovah send from Zion, Rule in the midst of thine enemies.

A Song of the Ascents. In Jehovah's turning back to the captivity of Zion, We have been as dreamers.

Jehovah doth bless thee out of Zion, Look, then, on the good of Jerusalem, All the days of thy life,

Confounded and turn backward do all hating Zion.

For Jehovah hath fixed on Zion, He hath desired it for a seat to Himself,

As dew of Hermon--That cometh down on hills of Zion, For there Jehovah commanded the blessing--Life unto the age!

Jehovah doth bless thee out of Zion, The maker of the heavens and earth!

Blessed is Jehovah from Zion, Inhabiting Jerusalem--praise ye Jah!

By rivers of Babylon--There we did sit, Yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.

For there our captors asked us the words of a song, And our spoilers--joy: `Sing ye to us of a song of Zion.'

Jehovah doth reign to the age, Thy God, O Zion, to generation and generation, Praise ye Jah!

Glorify, O Jerusalem, Jehovah, Praise thy God, O Zion.

Israel doth rejoice in his Maker, Sons of Zion do joy in their king.

Go forth, and look, ye daughters of Zion, On king Solomon, with the crown, With which his mother crowned him, In the day of his espousals, And in the day of the joy of his heart!

And left hath been the daughter of Zion, As a booth in a vineyard, As a lodge in a place of cucumbers--as a city besieged.

Zion in judgment is redeemed, And her captivity in righteousness.

And gone have many peoples and said, `Come, and we go up unto the mount of Jehovah, Unto the house of the God of Jacob, And He doth teach us of His ways, And we walk in His paths, For from Zion goeth forth a law, And a word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.

`Because that daughters of Zion have been haughty, And they walk stretching out the neck, And deceiving with the eyes, Walking and mincing they go, And with their feet they make a tinkling,

The Lord also hath scabbed The crown of the head of daughters of Zion, And Jehovah their simplicity exposeth.

And it hath been, he who is left in Zion, And he who is remaining in Jerusalem, `Holy' is said of him, Of every one who is written for life in Jerusalem.

If the Lord hath washed away The filth of daughters of Zion, And the blood of Jerusalem purgeth from her midst, By the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

Therefore, thus said the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, `Be not afraid, my people, inhabiting Zion, because of Asshur, With a rod he doth smite thee, And his staff lifteth up against thee, in the way of Egypt.

Yet to-day in Nob to remain, Wave its hand doth the mount of the daughter of Zion, The hill of Jerusalem.

Cry aloud, and sing, O inhabitant of Zion, For great in thy midst is the Holy One of Israel!'

And what doth one answer the messengers of a nation? `That Jehovah hath founded Zion, And in it do the poor of His people trust!'