Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible



Walk about Zion and circle it; count her towers. {Consider well} her ramparts. Go through her citadels so that you can tell [the] next generation


For I have bent Judah [as] my bow; I have set Ephraim [as an arrow]. I will set in motion your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Javan. I will wield you like the sword of a warrior.

Look [on] Zion, the city of our appointed festivals! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an undisturbed settlement, a tent {that is not moved}. No one will ever pull out its tent pegs, and none of its ropes will be torn in two.

At that time, Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes, and the leaders of the {families} of the {Israelites} before King Solomon, in order to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh from the city of David, that is, Zion.

Walk about Zion and circle it; count her towers.


Walk about Zion and circle it; count her towers. {Consider well} her ramparts. Go through her citadels so that you can tell [the] next generation


many peoples shall come. And they shall say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob, and may he teach us part of his ways, and let us walk in his paths." For instruction shall go out from Zion, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.

Remember your congregation [that] you bought long ago, [when] you redeemed the tribe of your inheritance. [Remember] {Mount Zion} where you have dwelt.

May he send you help from [the] sanctuary, and from Zion may he sustain you.

Walk about Zion and circle it; count her towers.

Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.


Walk about Zion and circle it; count her towers.


Then he strengthened himself and built up all the walls that were broken down, and raised towers upon [them] and another wall {outside}. And he strengthened the Millo of the city of David and made much weaponry and small shields.

And Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate, and at the Angle, and he strengthened them.

Walk about Zion and circle it; count her towers.

I [was] a wall, and my breasts [were] like the towers, {so [my betrothed] viewed me with great delight}.