Psalm 137:3

Lament During The Babylonian Exile

² On the willows in its midst, we hung up our harps. ³ For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!" ⁴ How can we sing Yahweh's song in a foreign land?

For Us

Songs of Zion

Zion

1 Chronicles 15:27

David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites who bore the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song [with] the singers: and David had on him an ephod of linen.

1 Chronicles 16:7

Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to Yahweh, by the hand of Asaph and his brothers.

Nehemiah 4:2

He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?"

Psalm 9:14

that I may show forth all your praise. In the gates of the daughter of Zion, I will rejoice in your salvation.

Psalm 65:1

Praise waits for you, God, in Zion. To you shall vows be performed.

Psalm 79:1

God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

Psalm 80:6

You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

Psalm 123:3-4

Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

Isaiah 35:10

The Yahweh's ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away."

Isaiah 51:11

The ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 26:18

Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

Jeremiah 31:12-13

They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young 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

All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at 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 Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.

Luke 21:6

"As for these things which you see, the days will come, in which there will not be left here one stone on another that will not be thrown down."

Revelation 14:1-3

I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.