For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.
Be in pain, make sounds of grief, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in childbirth: for now you will go out of the town, living in the open country, and will come even to Babylon; there you will have salvation; there the Lord will make you free from the hands of your haters.
And now a number of nations have come together against you, and they say, Let her be made unclean and let our eyes see the fate of Zion.
Up! and let the grain be crushed, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron and your feet brass, and a number of peoples will be broken by you, and you will give up their increase to the Lord and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.
And a number of nations will go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will give us knowledge of his ways and we will be guided by his word: for from Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
And I will make her whose steps were uncertain a small band, and her who was feeble a strong nation: and the Lord will be their King in Mount Zion from now and for ever.
And you, O tower of the flock, Ophel of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, even the earlier authority, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.
But in Mount Zion some will be kept safe, and it will be holy; and the children of Jacob will take their heritage.
And those who have been kept safe will come up from Mount Zion to be judges of the mountain of Esau; and the kingdom will be the Lord's.
You will again get up and have mercy on Zion: for the time has come for her to be comforted.
When the Lord has put up the walls of Zion, and has been been in his glory;
So that they may give out the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
The Lord will send out the rod of your strength from Zion; be king over your haters.
<A Song of the going up.> Those whose hope is in the Lord are like the mountain of Zion, which may not be moved, but keeps its place for ever.
<A Song of the going up.> When the Lord made a change in Zion's fate, we were like men in a dream.
May the Lord send you blessing out of Zion: may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.
Let all the haters of Zion be shamed and turned back.
For the Lord's heart is on Zion, desiring it for his resting-place.
Like the dew of Hermon, which comes down on the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord gave orders for the blessing, even life for ever.
May the Lord, who made heaven and earth, send you blessing out of Zion,
Praise be to the Lord out of Zion, even to the Lord whose house is in Jerusalem, Let the Lord be praised.
By the rivers of Babylon we were seated, weeping at the memory of Zion,
For there those who had taken us prisoners made request for a song; and those who had taken away all we had gave us orders to be glad, saying, Give us one of the songs of Zion.
The Lord will be King for ever; your God, O Zion, will be King through all generations. Praise be to the Lord.
May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! when the fate of his people is changed by the Lord, Jacob will have joy and Israel will be glad.
Give praise to the Lord, O Jerusalem; give praise to your God, O Zion.
Let Israel have joy in his maker; let the children of Zion be glad in their King.
May he send you help from the holy place, and give you strength from Zion;
But I have put my king on my holy hill of Zion.
Let there be joy in the mountain of Zion, and let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of your wise decisions.
Make your way about Zion, and go round it, numbering its towers.
Beautiful in its high position, the joy of all the earth, is the mountain of Zion, the mountain of God, the town of the great King.
From Zion, most beautiful of places, God has sent out his light.
Do good to Zion in your good pleasure, building up the walls of Jerusalem.
May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! When the fate of his people is changed by God, Jacob will have joy, and Israel will be glad.
<To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. A Song.> It is right for you, O God, to have praise in Zion: to you let the offering be made.
For God will be the saviour of Zion, and the builder of the towns of Judah; so that it may be their resting-place and heritage.
Keep in mind your band of worshippers, for whom you gave payment in the days which are past, whom you took for yourself as the people of your heritage; even this mountain of Zion, which has been your resting-place.
In Salem is his tent, his resting-place in Zion.
But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.
Happy is the man whose strength is in you; in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
They go from strength to strength; every one of them comes before God in Zion.
The Lord has more love for the doors of Zion than for all the tents of Jacob.
And of Zion it will be said, This or that man had his birth there; and the Most High will make her strong.
Make songs of praise to the Lord, whose house is in Zion: make his doings clear to the people.
So that I may make clear all your praise in the house of the daughter of Zion: I will be glad because of your salvation.
Zion gave ear and was glad; and the daughters of Judah were full of joy, because of your decisions, O Lord.
The Lord is great in Zion; he is high over all the nations.
And I saw the Lamb on the mountain of Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand, marked on their brows with his name and the name of his Father.
And so all Israel will get salvation: as it is said in the holy Writings, There will come out of Zion the One who makes free; by him wrongdoing will be taken away from Jacob:
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