Zion in the Bible
Meaning: monument; raised up; sepulcher
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"Return, apostate children," {declares} Yahweh. "For {I am your master}, and I will take you one from a city and two from a clan, and I will bring you [to] Zion.
Lift up a signal toward Zion, bring yourselves to safety; you must not remain standing, for I [am] bringing evil from [the] north, and a great destruction.
And you, Zion, city doomed to destruction, you accomplish nothing by wearing a beautiful dress, decking yourself out in jewels of gold, and putting on eye shadow! You are making yourself beautiful for nothing. Your lovers spurn you. They want to kill you.
For I heard a voice like an ill woman, anxiety like [a woman who] bears her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion. She is gasping for breath, she is spreading out her hands: "Woe is me, for I am becoming tired before killers."
The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off.
[The] bow and [the] short sword they grasp [are] cruel, and they show no mercy. Their sound roars like the sea, and on horses they ride, drawn up like a man for battle against you, O daughter of Zion."
And they have made little of the wounds of the daughter of Zion, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Look, the sound of the cry for help of the daughter of my people from a distant land, 'Is Yahweh not in Zion? Is her king not in her?' Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with idols of a foreign land?"
For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion, 'How we are devastated! We are very ashamed because we have left the land, because they have overthrown our dwelling places.'
Have you completely rejected Judah? Or has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us so that there is no healing for us? We hope for peace, but there is no good, and for a time of healing, but look, there is terror.
Therefore thus sayeth the LORD: Ask among the Heathen, if any man hath heard such horrible things, as the Daughter of Zion hath done.
Climb up the hill of Lebanon, O thou daughter Zion! Lift up thy voice upon Bashan, cry from all parts: for all thy lovers are destroyed.
"Micah the Morashtite was prophesying in the days of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, and he said to all the people of Judah, {saying}: 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, "Zion will be plowed, and Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the {temple} as high places of wood." '
Moreover, the Lord says to the people of Zion, "Your injuries are incurable; your wounds are severe.
For I will present healing to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,' {declares} Yahweh. 'Because they have called you an outcast, [saying], "It is Zion, there is no [one who] cares for her." '
For there will be a day [when] watchmen will call in the hill country of Ephraim, 'Stand up, and let us go up [to] Zion, to Yahweh our God.'"
And they will come, and they will sing for joy on the height of Zion, and they will be radiant over the goodness of Yahweh, over [the] grain, and over [the] wine, and over [the] olive oil, and over [the] young ones of [the] flock, and over [the] cattle. And their life will become like a well-watered garden, and they will never languish again."
They that are able to flee, shall stand under the shadow of Heshbon. For there shall go a fire out of Heshbon, and a flame from Zion, and shall burn up that proud people of Moab, both before and behind.
To Zion, shall they ask the way, Hitherward, their faces, Come and let us join ourselves unto Yahweh, In a covenant age-abiding, which shall not be forgotten.
The voice Of them who are in flight and Of such as are escaping, out of the land of Babylon, - To tell in Zion The avenging of Yahweh our God, The avenging of his temple.
Yahweh hath brought forth our righteousnesses, - Come and let us relate in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.
So will I recompense to Babylon, And to all the inhabitants of Chaldea, All their wickedness which they have committed against Zion before your eyes, - Declareth Yahweh.
The violence done to me and to my flesh, be upon Babylon! Shall the inhabitress of Zion say, - Yea, my blood, be upon the inhabitant of Chaldea! Shall Jerusalem say.
Thematic Bible
Church » Zion
On the hills of Ephraim call out,
‘Arise, and
To the Lord our God.’”
There we sat down and
When we remembered Zion.
Let the
Because of Your judgments.
Which You have
And this Mount
He has
And come with joyful shouting to Zion,
With everlasting joy upon their heads.
They will
And
And sound an alarm on My holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
For the
Surely it is near,
Jerusalem » The names given to » Zion
I will fill the bow with Ephraim.
And I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O
And I will make you like a
Jerusalem » Called » Zion
I will fill the bow with Ephraim.
And I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O
And I will make you like a
Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an
Its stakes will never be pulled up,
Nor any of its cords be torn apart.
Count her
Temple » Solomon's » Zion
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
That He may teach us
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For the
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Which You have
And this Mount
And
Count her
More than all the other dwelling places of Jacob.
The First Temple » Was called » Zion
How blessed are those who dwell in Your house! They are ever praising You. Selah. How blessed is the man whose strength is in You, In whose heart are the highways to Zion! Passing through the valley of Baca they make it a spring; The early rain also covers it with blessings. They go from strength to strength, Every one of them appears before God in Zion.
Zion » Restoration of, promised
I will fill the bow with Ephraim.
And I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O
And I will make you like a
Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your
He is
Even on a
And to those who
He will comfort all her
And her
And her desert like the
Thanksgiving and sound of a melody.
And all those who despised you will bow themselves at the soles of your feet;
And they will call you the
The
And come with joyful shouting to Zion,
And
They will obtain gladness and joy,
And
And the exiles of this host of the sons of Israel, Who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath, And the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad Will possess the cities of the Negev. The deliverers will ascend Mount Zion To judge the mountain of Esau, And the kingdom will be the LORD'S.
Rejoice and exult with all your heart,
O daughter of Jerusalem!
“
Zion » Mount of
“
He will remove ungodliness from Jacob.”
More than all the other dwelling places of Jacob.
Zion » Name of, applied to jerusalem
I will fill the bow with Ephraim.
And I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O
And I will make you like a
And the Most High Himself will
And gaze on King Solomon with the
With which his mother has crowned him
On the
And on the day of his gladness of heart.”
Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an
Its stakes will never be pulled up,
Nor any of its cords be torn apart.
“Who among us can live with
Who among us can live with
And I will heal you of your wounds,’ declares the Lord,
‘Because they have called you an
“It is Zion; no one
Let the sons of Zion rejoice in their
More than all the other dwelling places of Jacob.
‘
We are put to great shame,
For we have
Because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
Zion » Called thereafter "the city of david,"
Zion » The ark of the covenant » Placed in
Zion » The ark of the covenant » Removed » Solomon's temple » Mount moriah
Zion » Captured from the jebusites by david
So David lived in the stronghold and called it the city of David And David built all around from the Millo and inward.
Zion » Called the city of God
And all those who despised you will bow themselves at the soles of your feet;
And they will call you the
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