Psalm 137:3

Lament During The Babylonian Exile

² We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof; ³ For there our captors demanded of us songs,
And our tormentors mirth, saying,
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”
⁴ How shall we sing the song of the LORD in the land of strangers?

For Us

Songs of Zion

Zion

1 Chronicles 15:27

And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and also all the Levites that bore the ark and the singers and Chenaniah, the prince of the prophecy of the singers. David also had upon him an ephod of linen.

1 Chronicles 16:7

Then, on that day, David began to thank the LORD by the hand of Asaph and his brethren.

Nehemiah 4:2

And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? Is this to be permitted them? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish on time? Will they resurrect the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which were burned?

Psalm 9:14

that I may show forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy saving health.

Psalm 65:1

Praise doth rest in thee, O God, in Sion and unto thee shall the vow be performed.

Psalm 79:1

O God, the Gentiles are come into thine inheritance; they have defiled the temple of thy holiness; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

Psalm 80:6

Thou dost make us a strife unto our neighbours, and our enemies laugh at us among themselves.

Psalm 123:3-4

Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we are exceedingly weary of being held in contempt.

Isaiah 35:10

And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with songs; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall retain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Isaiah 51:11

Therefore the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head; they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

Jeremiah 9:11

And I will make Jerusalem heaps and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 26:18

Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the temple mount as the high places of a forest.

Jeremiah 31:12-13

Therefore they shall come and do praises in the height of Zion and shall run unto the goodness of the LORD, unto the bread, and unto the wine, and unto the oil, and unto the gain of the flock and of the herd and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

Lamentations 2:15-16

Samech All that passed by clapped their hands over thee and whistled and wagged their heads over the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

Micah 3:12

Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

Luke 21:6

As for these things which ye behold, the days will come in which there shall not be left one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down.

Revelation 14:1-3

And I saw and, behold, the Lamb stood upon Mount Sion and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand, having the name of his Father written in their foreheads.