Thursday, July 3, 2008

ZION VERSES FROM THE BIBLE


It is acknowledged that in some cases "Zion" only refers to a location in the Middle East. However a careful reading of many verses will show clearly that this cannot be true for all references and in some cases there are dual symbolic meanings.


OLD TESTAMENT:

2 Samuel 5:7Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion, the City of David.
2 Samuel 5:6-8 (in Context) 2 Samuel 5 (Whole Chapter)
1 Kings 8:1[ The Ark Brought to the Temple ] Then King Solomon summoned into his presence at Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the LORD's covenant from Zion, the City of David.
1 Kings 8:1-3 (in Context) 1 Kings 8 (Whole Chapter)
2 Kings 19:21This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: " 'The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you. The Daughter of Jerusalem tosses her head as you flee.
2 Kings 19:20-22 (in Context) 2 Kings 19 (Whole Chapter)
2 Kings 19:31For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.
2 Kings 19:30-32 (in Context) 2 Kings 19 (Whole Chapter)
1 Chronicles 11:5said to David, "You will not get in here." Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion, the City of David.
1 Chronicles 11:4-6 (in Context) 1 Chronicles 11 (Whole Chapter)
2 Chronicles 5:2[ The Ark Brought to the Temple ] Then Solomon summoned to Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the LORD's covenant from Zion, the City of David.
2 Chronicles 5:1-3 (in Context) 2 Chronicles 5 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 2:6"I have installed my King on Zion, my holy hill."
Psalm 2:5-7 (in Context) Psalm 2 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 9:11Sing praises to the LORD, enthroned in Zion; proclaim among the nations what he has done.
Psalm 9:10-12 (in Context) Psalm 9 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 9:14that I may declare your praises in the gates of the Daughter of Zion and there rejoice in your salvation.
Psalm 9:13-15 (in Context) Psalm 9 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 14:7Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the LORD restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!Psalm 14:6-7 (in Context) Psalm 14 (Whole Chapter)

Psalm 20:2May he send you help from the sanctuary and grant you support from Zion.
Psalm 20:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 20 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 48:2It is beautiful in its loftiness, the joy of the whole earth. Like the utmost heights of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the Great King.
Psalm 48:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 48 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 48:11Mount Zion rejoices, the villages of Judah are glad because of your judgments.
Psalm 48:10-12 (in Context) Psalm 48 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 48:12Walk about Zion, go around her, count her towers,
Psalm 48:11-13 (in Context) Psalm 48 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 50:2From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.
Psalm 50:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 50 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 51:18In your good pleasure make Zion prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.
Psalm 51:17-19 (in Context) Psalm 51 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 53:6Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When God restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!
Psalm 53:5-6 (in Context) Psalm 53 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 65:1[ For the director of music. A psalm of David. A song. ] Praise awaits you, O God, in Zion; to you our vows will be fulfilled.
Psalm 65:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 65 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 69:35for God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah. Then people will settle there and possess it;
Psalm 69:34-36 (in Context) Psalm 69 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 74:2Remember the people you purchased of old, the tribe of your inheritance, whom you redeemed— Mount Zion, where you dwelt.
Psalm 74:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 74 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 76:2His tent is in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion.
Psalm 76:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 76 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 78:68but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved.
Psalm 78:67-69 (in Context) Psalm 78 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 84:7They go from strength to strength, till each appears before God in Zion.
Psalm 84:6-8 (in Context) Psalm 84 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 87:2the LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Psalm 87:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 87 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 87:4"I will record Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me— Philistia too, and Tyre, along with Cush — and will say, 'This one was born in Zion.' "
Psalm 87:3-5 (in Context) Psalm 87 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 87:5Indeed, of Zion it will be said, "This one and that one were born in her, and the Most High himself will establish her."
Psalm 87:4-6 (in Context) Psalm 87 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 87:6The LORD will write in the register of the peoples: "This one was born in Zion." Selah
Psalm 87:5-7 (in Context) Psalm 87 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 97:8Zion hears and rejoices and the villages of Judah are glad because of your judgments, O LORD.
Psalm 97:7-9 (in Context) Psalm 97 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 99:2Great is the LORD in Zion; he is exalted over all the nations.
Psalm 99:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 99 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 102:13You will arise and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show favor to her; the appointed time has come.
Psalm 102:12-14 (in Context) Psalm 102 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 102:16For the LORD will rebuild Zion and appear in his glory.
Psalm 102:15-17 (in Context) Psalm 102 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 102:21So the name of the LORD will be declared in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem
Psalm 102:20-22 (in Context) Psalm 102 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 110:2The LORD will extend your mighty scepter from Zion; you will rule in the midst of your enemies.
Psalm 110:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 110 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 125:1[ A song of ascents. ] Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken but endures forever.
Psalm 125:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 125 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 126:1[ A song of ascents. ] When the LORD brought back the captives to Zion, we were like men who dreamed.
Psalm 126:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 126 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 128:5May the LORD bless you from Zion all the days of your life; may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem,
Psalm 128:4-6 (in Context) Psalm 128 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 129:5May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame.
Psalm 129:4-6 (in Context) Psalm 129 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 132:13For the LORD has chosen Zion, he has desired it for his dwelling:
Psalm 132:12-14 (in Context) Psalm 132 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 133:3It is as if the dew of Hermon were falling on Mount Zion. For there the LORD bestows his blessing, even life forevermore.
Psalm 133:2-3 (in Context) Psalm 133 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 134:3May the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth, bless you from Zion.
Psalm 134:2-3 (in Context) Psalm 134 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 135:21Praise be to the LORD from Zion, to him who dwells in Jerusalem. Praise the LORD.
Psalm 135:20-21 (in Context) Psalm 135 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 137:1By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
Psalm 137:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 137 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 137:3for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
Psalm 137:2-4 (in Context) Psalm 137 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 146:10The LORD reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Praise the LORD.
Psalm 146:9-10 (in Context) Psalm 146 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 147:12Extol the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion,
Psalm 147:11-13 (in Context) Psalm 147 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 149:2Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; let the people of Zion be glad in their King.
Psalm 149:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 149 (Whole Chapter)
Song of Solomon 3:11Come out, you daughters of Zion, and look at King Solomon wearing the crown, the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, the day his heart rejoiced.
Song of Solomon 3:10-11 (in Context) Song of Solomon 3 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 1:8The Daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a city under siege.
Isaiah 1:7-9 (in Context) Isaiah 1 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 1:27Zion will be redeemed with justice, her penitent ones with righteousness.
Isaiah 1:26-28 (in Context) Isaiah 1 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 2:3Many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths." The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Isaiah 2:2-4 (in Context) Isaiah 2 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 3:16The LORD says, "The women of Zion are haughty, walking along with outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes, tripping along with mincing steps, with ornaments jingling on their ankles.
Isaiah 3:15-17 (in Context) Isaiah 3 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 3:17Therefore the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the women of Zion; the LORD will make their scalps bald."
Isaiah 3:16-18 (in Context) Isaiah 3 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 3:26The gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
Isaiah 3:25-26 (in Context) Isaiah 3 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 4:3Those who are left in Zion, who remain in Jerusalem, will be called holy, all who are recorded among the living in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 4:2-4 (in Context) Isaiah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 4:4The Lord will wash away the filth of the women of Zion; he will cleanse the bloodstains from Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.
Isaiah 4:3-5 (in Context) Isaiah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 4:5Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over those who assemble there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night; over all the glory will be a canopy.
Isaiah 4:4-6 (in Context) Isaiah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 8:18Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.
Isaiah 8:17-19 (in Context) Isaiah 8 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 10:12When the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will say, "I will punish the king of Assyria for the willful pride of his heart and the haughty look in his eyes.
Isaiah 10:11-13 (in Context) Isaiah 10 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 10:24Therefore, this is what the Lord, the LORD Almighty, says: "O my people who live in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrians, who beat you with a rod and lift up a club against you, as Egypt did.
Isaiah 10:23-25 (in Context) Isaiah 10 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 10:32This day they will halt at Nob; they will shake their fist at the mount of the Daughter of Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.
Isaiah 10:31-33 (in Context) Isaiah 10 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 12:6Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you."
Isaiah 12:5-6 (in Context) Isaiah 12 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 14:32What answer shall be given to the envoys of that nation? "The LORD has established Zion, and in her his afflicted people will find refuge."
Isaiah 14:31-32 (in Context) Isaiah 14 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 16:1Send lambs as tribute to the ruler of the land, from Sela, across the desert, to the mount of the Daughter of Zion.
Isaiah 16:1-3 (in Context) Isaiah 16 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 18:7At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD Almighty from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers— the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD Almighty.
Isaiah 18:6-7 (in Context) Isaiah 18 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 24:23The moon will be abashed, the sun ashamed; for the LORD Almighty will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before its elders, gloriously.
Isaiah 24:22-23 (in Context) Isaiah 24 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 28:16So this is what the Sovereign LORD says: "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who trusts will never be dismayed.
Isaiah 28:15-17 (in Context) Isaiah 28 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 29:8as when a hungry man dreams that he is eating, but he awakens, and his hunger remains; as when a thirsty man dreams that he is drinking, but he awakens faint, with his thirst unquenched. So will it be with the hordes of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion.
Isaiah 29:7-9 (in Context) Isaiah 29 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 30:19O people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you.
Isaiah 30:18-20 (in Context) Isaiah 30 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 31:4This is what the LORD says to me: "As a lion growls, a great lion over his prey— and though a whole band of shepherds is called together against him, he is not frightened by their shouts or disturbed by their clamor— so the LORD Almighty will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and on its heights.
Isaiah 31:3-5 (in Context) Isaiah 31 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 31:9Their stronghold will fall because of terror; at sight of the battle standard their commanders will panic," declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 31:8-9 (in Context) Isaiah 31 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 33:5The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness.
Isaiah 33:4-6 (in Context) Isaiah 33 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 33:14The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling grips the godless: "Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?"
Isaiah 33:13-15 (in Context) Isaiah 33 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 33:20Look upon Zion, the city of our festivals; your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful abode, a tent that will not be moved; its stakes will never be pulled up, nor any of its ropes broken.
Isaiah 33:19-21 (in Context) Isaiah 33 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 33:24No one living in Zion will say, "I am ill"; and the sins of those who dwell there will be forgiven.
Isaiah 33:23-24 (in Context) Isaiah 33 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 34:8For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution, to uphold Zion's cause.
Isaiah 34:7-9 (in Context) Isaiah 34 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 35:10and the ransomed of the LORD will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
Isaiah 35:9-10 (in Context) Isaiah 35 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 37:22this is the word the LORD has spoken against him: "The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises and mocks you. The Daughter of Jerusalem tosses her head as you flee.
Isaiah 37:21-23 (in Context) Isaiah 37 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 37:32For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.
Isaiah 37:31-33 (in Context) Isaiah 37 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 40:9You who bring good tidings to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who bring good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with a shout, lift it up, do not be afraid; say to the towns of Judah, "Here is your God!"
Isaiah 40:8-10 (in Context) Isaiah 40 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 41:27I was the first to tell Zion, 'Look, here they are!' I gave to Jerusalem a messenger of good tidings.
Isaiah 41:26-28 (in Context) Isaiah 41 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 46:13I am bringing my righteousness near, it is not far away; and my salvation will not be delayed. I will grant salvation to Zion, my splendor to Israel.
Isaiah 46:12-13 (in Context) Isaiah 46 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 49:14But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me."
Isaiah 49:13-15 (in Context) Isaiah 49 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 51:1[ Everlasting Salvation for Zion ] "Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the LORD : Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn;
Isaiah 51:1-3 (in Context) Isaiah 51 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 51:3The LORD will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing.
Isaiah 51:2-4 (in Context) Isaiah 51 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 51:11The ransomed of the LORD will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
Isaiah 51:10-12 (in Context) Isaiah 51 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 51:16I have put my words in your mouth and covered you with the shadow of my hand— I who set the heavens in place, who laid the foundations of the earth, and who say to Zion, 'You are my people.' "
Isaiah 51:15-17 (in Context) Isaiah 51 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 52:1Awake, awake, O Zion, clothe yourself with strength. Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, the holy city. The uncircumcised and defiled will not enter you again.
Isaiah 52:1-3 (in Context) Isaiah 52 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 52:2Shake off your dust; rise up, sit enthroned, O Jerusalem. Free yourself from the chains on your neck, O captive Daughter of Zion.
Isaiah 52:1-3 (in Context) Isaiah 52 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 52:7How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, "Your God reigns!"
Isaiah 52:6-8 (in Context) Isaiah 52 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 52:8Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices; together they shout for joy. When the LORD returns to Zion, they will see it with their own eyes.
Isaiah 52:7-9 (in Context) Isaiah 52 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 54:1[ The Future Glory of Zion ] "Sing, O barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband," says the LORD.
Isaiah 54:1-3 (in Context) Isaiah 54 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 59:20"The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who repent of their sins," declares the LORD.
Isaiah 59:19-21 (in Context) Isaiah 59 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 60:1[ The Glory of Zion ] "Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
Isaiah 60:1-3 (in Context) Isaiah 60 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 60:14The sons of your oppressors will come bowing before you; all who despise you will bow down at your feet and will call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 60:13-15 (in Context) Isaiah 60 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 61:3and provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the LORD for the display of his splendor.
Isaiah 61:2-4 (in Context) Isaiah 61 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 62:1[ Zion's New Name ] For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem's sake I will not remain quiet, till her righteousness shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch.
Isaiah 62:1-3 (in Context) Isaiah 62 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 62:11The LORD has made proclamation to the ends of the earth: "Say to the Daughter of Zion, 'See, your Savior comes! See, his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him.' "
Isaiah 62:10-12 (in Context) Isaiah 62 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 64:10Your sacred cities have become a desert; even Zion is a desert, Jerusalem a desolation.Isaiah 64:9-11 (in Context) Isaiah 64 (Whole Chapter)

Isaiah 66:8Who has ever heard of such a thing? Who has ever seen such things? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment? Yet no sooner is Zion in labor than she gives birth to her children.
Isaiah 66:7-9 (in Context) Isaiah 66 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 3:14"Return, faithless people," declares the LORD, "for I am your husband. I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion.Jeremiah 3:13-15 (in Context) Jeremiah 3 (Whole Chapter)

Jeremiah 4:6Raise the signal to go to Zion! Flee for safety without delay! For I am bringing disaster from the north, even terrible destruction."Jeremiah 4:5-7 (in Context) Jeremiah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 4:31I hear a cry as of a woman in labor, a groan as of one bearing her first child— the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands and saying, "Alas! I am fainting; my life is given over to murderers."
Jeremiah 4:30-31 (in Context) Jeremiah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 6:2I will destroy the Daughter of Zion, so beautiful and delicate.
Jeremiah 6:1-3 (in Context) Jeremiah 6 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 6:23They are armed with bow and spear; they are cruel and show no mercy. They sound like the roaring sea as they ride on their horses; they come like men in battle formation to attack you, O Daughter of Zion."
Jeremiah 6:22-24 (in Context) Jeremiah 6 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 8:19Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: "Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?" "Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?"
Jeremiah 8:18-20 (in Context) Jeremiah 8 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 9:19The sound of wailing is heard from Zion: 'How ruined we are! How great is our shame! We must leave our land because our houses are in ruins.' "
Jeremiah 9:18-20 (in Context) Jeremiah 9 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 14:19Have you rejected Judah completely? Do you despise Zion? Why have you afflicted us so that we cannot be healed? We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there is only terror.
Jeremiah 14:18-20 (in Context) Jeremiah 14 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 26:18"Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. He told all the people of Judah, 'This is what the LORD Almighty says: " 'Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.'
Jeremiah 26:17-19 (in Context) Jeremiah 26 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 30:17But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds,' declares the LORD, 'because you are called an outcast, Zion for whom no one cares.'
Jeremiah 30:16-18 (in Context) Jeremiah 30 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 31:6There will be a day when watchmen cry out on the hills of Ephraim, 'Come, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God.' "
Jeremiah 31:5-7 (in Context) Jeremiah 31 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 31:12They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will rejoice in the bounty of the LORD— the grain, the new wine and the oil, the young of the flocks and herds. They will be like a well-watered garden, and they will sorrow no more.
Jeremiah 31:11-13 (in Context) Jeremiah 31 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 50:5They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and bind themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.
Jeremiah 50:4-6 (in Context) Jeremiah 50 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 50:28Listen to the fugitives and refugees from Babylon declaring in Zion how the LORD our God has taken vengeance, vengeance for his temple.
Jeremiah 50:27-29 (in Context) Jeremiah 50 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 51:10" 'The LORD has vindicated us; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has done.'
Jeremiah 51:9-11 (in Context) Jeremiah 51 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 51:24"Before your eyes I will repay Babylon and all who live in Babylonia for all the wrong they have done in Zion," declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:23-25 (in Context) Jeremiah 51 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 51:35May the violence done to our flesh be upon Babylon," say the inhabitants of Zion. "May our blood be on those who live in Babylonia," says Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 51:34-36 (in Context) Jeremiah 51 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 1:4The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gateways are desolate, her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she is in bitter anguish.
Lamentations 1:3-5 (in Context) Lamentations 1 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 1:6All the splendor has departed from the Daughter of Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; in weakness they have fled before the pursuer.
Lamentations 1:5-7 (in Context) Lamentations 1 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 1:17Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed for Jacob that his neighbors become his foes; Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.
Lamentations 1:16-18 (in Context) Lamentations 1 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 2:1How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of his anger ! He has hurled down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
Lamentations 2:1-3 (in Context) Lamentations 2 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 2:4Like an enemy he has strung his bow; his right hand is ready. Like a foe he has slain all who were pleasing to the eye; he has poured out his wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.
Lamentations 2:3-5 (in Context) Lamentations 2 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 2:6He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden; he has destroyed his place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and her Sabbaths; in his fierce anger he has spurned both king and priest.
Lamentations 2:5-7 (in Context) Lamentations 2 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 2:8The LORD determined to tear down the wall around the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withhold his hand from destroying. He made ramparts and walls lament; together they wasted away.
Lamentations 2:7-9 (in Context) Lamentations 2 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 2:10The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have sprinkled dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
Lamentations 2:9-11 (in Context) Lamentations 2 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 2:13What can I say for you? With what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may comfort you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? Your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can heal you?
Lamentations 2:12-14 (in Context) Lamentations 2 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 2:18The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears flow like a river day and night; give yourself no relief, your eyes no rest.
Lamentations 2:17-19 (in Context) Lamentations 2 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 4:2How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in gold, are now considered as pots of clay, the work of a potter's hands!
Lamentations 4:1-3 (in Context) Lamentations 4 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 4:11The LORD has given full vent to his wrath; he has poured out his fierce anger. He kindled a fire in Zion that consumed her foundations.
Lamentations 4:10-12 (in Context) Lamentations 4 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 4:22O Daughter of Zion, your punishment will end; he will not prolong your exile. But, O Daughter of Edom, he will punish your sin and expose your wickedness.
Lamentations 4:21-22 (in Context) Lamentations 4 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 5:11Women have been ravished in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah.
Lamentations 5:10-12 (in Context) Lamentations 5 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 5:18for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, with jackals prowling over it.
Lamentations 5:17-19 (in Context) Lamentations 5 (Whole Chapter)
Joel 2:1[ An Army of Locusts ] Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy hill. Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming. It is close at hand-
Joel 2:1-3 (in Context) Joel 2 (Whole Chapter)
Joel 2:15Blow the trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, call a sacred assembly.
Joel 2:14-16 (in Context) Joel 2 (Whole Chapter)
Joel 2:23Be glad, O people of Zion, rejoice in the LORD your God, for he has given you the autumn rains in righteousness. He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
Joel 2:22-24 (in Context) Joel 2 (Whole Chapter)
Joel 2:32And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has said, among the survivors whom the LORD calls.
Joel 2:31-32 (in Context) Joel 2 (Whole Chapter)
Joel 3:16The LORD will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem; the earth and the sky will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
Joel 3:15-17 (in Context) Joel 3 (Whole Chapter)
Joel 3:17[ Blessings for God's People ] "Then you will know that I, the LORD your God, dwell in Zion, my holy hill. Jerusalem will be holy; never again will foreigners invade her.
Joel 3:16-18 (in Context) Joel 3 (Whole Chapter)
Joel 3:21Their bloodguilt, which I have not pardoned, I will pardon." The LORD dwells in Zion!
Joel 3:20-21 (in Context) Joel 3 (Whole Chapter)
Amos 1:2He said: "The LORD roars from Zion and thunders from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds dry up, and the top of Carmel withers."
Amos 1:1-3 (in Context) Amos 1 (Whole Chapter)
Amos 6:1[ Woe to the Complacent ] Woe to you who are complacent in Zion, and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria, you notable men of the foremost nation, to whom the people of Israel come!
Amos 6:1-3 (in Context) Amos 6 (Whole Chapter)
Obadiah 1:17But on Mount Zion will be deliverance; it will be holy, and the house of Jacob will possess its inheritance.
Obadiah 1:16-18 (in Context) Obadiah 1 (Whole Chapter)
Obadiah 1:21Deliverers will go up on Mount Zion to govern the mountains of Esau. And the kingdom will be the LORD's.
Obadiah 1:20-21 (in Context) Obadiah 1 (Whole Chapter)
Micah 1:13You who live in Lachish, harness the team to the chariot. You were the beginning of sin to the Daughter of Zion, for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.
Micah 1:12-14 (in Context) Micah 1 (Whole Chapter)
Micah 3:10who build Zion with bloodshed, and Jerusalem with wickedness.
Micah 3:9-11 (in Context) Micah 3 (Whole Chapter)
Micah 3:12Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.
Micah 3:11-12 (in Context) Micah 3 (Whole Chapter)
Micah 4:2Many nations will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths." The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Micah 4:1-3 (in Context) Micah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Micah 4:7I will make the lame a remnant, those driven away a strong nation. The LORD will rule over them in Mount Zion from that day and forever.
Micah 4:6-8 (in Context) Micah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Micah 4:8As for you, O watchtower of the flock, O stronghold of the Daughter of Zion, the former dominion will be restored to you; kingship will come to the Daughter of Jerusalem."
Micah 4:7-9 (in Context) Micah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Micah 4:10Writhe in agony, O Daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor, for now you must leave the city to camp in the open field. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued. There the LORD will redeem you out of the hand of your enemies.
Micah 4:9-11 (in Context) Micah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Micah 4:11But now many nations are gathered against you. They say, "Let her be defiled, let our eyes gloat over Zion!"
Micah 4:10-12 (in Context) Micah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Micah 4:13"Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron; I will give you hoofs of bronze and you will break to pieces many nations." You will devote their ill-gotten gains to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.
Micah 4:12-13 (in Context) Micah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Zephaniah 3:14Sing, O Daughter of Zion; shout aloud, O Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O Daughter of Jerusalem!
Zephaniah 3:13-15 (in Context) Zephaniah 3 (Whole Chapter)
Zephaniah 3:16On that day they will say to Jerusalem, "Do not fear, O Zion; do not let your hands hang limp.
Zephaniah 3:15-17 (in Context) Zephaniah 3 (Whole Chapter)
Zechariah 1:14Then the angel who was speaking to me said, "Proclaim this word: This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion,
Zechariah 1:13-15 (in Context) Zechariah 1 (Whole Chapter)
Zechariah 1:17"Proclaim further: This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'My towns will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.' "
Zechariah 1:16-18 (in Context) Zechariah 1 (Whole Chapter)
Zechariah 2:7"Come, O Zion! Escape, you who live in the Daughter of Babylon!"
Zechariah 2:6-8 (in Context) Zechariah 2 (Whole Chapter)
Zechariah 2:10"Shout and be glad, O Daughter of Zion. For I am coming, and I will live among you," declares the LORD.
Zechariah 2:9-11 (in Context) Zechariah 2 (Whole Chapter)
Zechariah 8:2This is what the LORD Almighty says: "I am very jealous for Zion; I am burning with jealousy for her."
Zechariah 8:1-3 (in Context) Zechariah 8 (Whole Chapter)
Zechariah 8:3This is what the LORD says: "I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD Almighty will be called the Holy Mountain."
Zechariah 8:2-4 (in Context) Zechariah 8 (Whole Chapter)
Zechariah 9:9[ The Coming of Zion's King ] Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Zechariah 9:8-10 (in Context) Zechariah 9 (Whole Chapter)
Zechariah 9:13I will bend Judah as I bend my bow and fill it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and make you like a warrior's sword.
Zechariah 9:12-14 (in Context) Zechariah 9 (Whole Chapter)

NEW TESTAMENT:
(also see "NEW JERUSALEM")

Matthew 21:5"Say to the Daughter of Zion, 'See, your king comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.' "
Matthew 21:4-6 (in Context) Matthew 21 (Whole Chapter)
John 12:15"Do not be afraid, O Daughter of Zion; see, your king is coming, seated on a donkey's colt."
John 12:14-16 (in Context) John 12 (Whole Chapter)
Romans 9:33As it is written: "See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."
Romans 9:32-33 (in Context) Romans 9 (Whole Chapter)
Romans 11:26And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
Romans 11:25-27 (in Context) Romans 11 (Whole Chapter)
Hebrews 12:22But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly,
Hebrews 12:21-23 (in Context) Hebrews 12 (Whole Chapter)
1 Peter 2:6For in Scripture it says: "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."
1 Peter 2:5-7 (in Context) 1 Peter 2 (Whole Chapter)
Revelation 14:1[ The Lamb and the 144,000 ] Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.
Revelation 14:1-3 (in Context) Revelation 14 (Whole Chapter)

NEW JERUSALEM REFERENCES:


Revelation 3:12Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
Revelation 3:11-13 (in Context) Revelation 3 (Whole Chapter)
Revelation 21:2And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Revelation 21:1-3 (in Context) Revelation 21 (Whole Chapter)

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