52 Bible Verses about Zion, As A Symbol

Blessed be Jehovah from Zion, dwelling in Jerusalem. Praise ye Jah.

And his booth shall be in peace, and his dwelling in Zion.

For Jehovah chose in Zion; for he desired it for a dwelling to himself. This my rest even forever: here I will dwell, for I desired it

And ye knew that I am Jehovah your God dwelling in Zion my holy mountain: and Jerusalem was holy, and strangers shall no more pass through her.

So that I shall recount all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.

Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on the garments of thy glory, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for the uncircumcised shall no more add to come into thee, and the unclean. Shake thyself from dust: arise, sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bonds of thy neck, thou captive daughter of Zion.

Jehovah purposed to destroy the walls of the daughter of Zion: he stretched out a line, he turned not back his hand from swallowing down: and the entrenchment will mourn, and the wall; together they languished. Her gates sank into the earth; he destroyed and broke her bars: her king and her chiefs among the nations: no law: also her prophets found not a vision from Jehovah. They sat upon the earth; the old men of the daughter of Zion were silent; they brought up the dust upon their head: they girded on sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem brought down their head to the earth.

In that day, says Jehovah, I will assemble her halting, and I will gather her thrust out, and whom I broke in pieces. And I set her halting for a remnant, and her far removed, for a strong nation: and Jehovah reigning over them in mount Zion from now and even to forever. And thou, O tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of Zion, even to thee shall it come, and the first dominion: came the kingdom to the daughter of Jerusalem.

Say to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy king comes to thee, meek, and mounted upon an ass, and a colt, son of a beast of burthen.

Fear not, O daughter of Sion: behold, thy King comes, sitting upon the foal of an ass.

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; make a loud noise, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy king shall come to thee: just, and saving; he is humble and riding upon an ass, and upon an ass's colt the son of asses.

And be will choose the tribe of Judah, mount Zion which he loved.

Rejecting, didst thou reject Judah? if thy soul abhorred in Zion? wherefore didst thou smite us, and no healing to us? waiting for peace, and no good; and for a time of healing, and behold terror.

How will Jehovah in his anger cover the daughter of Zion! he cast down from the heavens to the earth the beauty of Israel, and he remembered not the footstool of his feet in the day of his anger.

I brought near my justice; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not delay: and I gave salvation in Zion for Israel my beauty.

Jehovah loved the gates of Zion above all the tents of Jacob.

Thou wilt arise, thou wilt compassionate Zion: for the time to compassionate her for the appointment came. For thy servants delighted in her stones, and they will compassionate her dust And the nations shall fear the name of Jehovah: and all the kings of the earth thy gloryread more.
For Jehovah built Zion, he was seen in his glory

As the dew of Hermon coming down upon the mountains of Zion: for there Jehovah commanded the blessing, life even forever.

For Jehovah chose in Zion; for he desired it for a dwelling to himself. This my rest even forever: here I will dwell, for I desired it Blessing I will bless her provision: I will fill her needy with bread.read more.
And I will put upon her priests salvation, and her godly ones shall rejoice a rejoicing.

Praise Jehovah, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion. For he strengthened the bars of thy gates; he blessed thy sons within thee. Setting thy bound peace, he will fill thee with the fat of the wheat.

Micah the Morasthite was prophesying in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and he will say to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus said Jehovah of armies: Zion shall be ploughed a field, and Jerusalem shall be ruins, and the mountain of the house for the heights of a forest

For this, on account of you Zion shall be ploughed a field, and Jerusalem shall be ruins, and the mountain of the house for the heights of the forest.

And the daughter of Zion was left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a field of cucumbers, as a city besieged. Unless Jehovah of armies left to us an escaping so small, we were as Sodom and we were made like to Gomorrah.

I likened the daughter of Zion to her becoming and delicate To her shall come the shepherds and their flocks; they fixed the tents upon her round about; they fed each with his hand. Consecrate ye war against her; arise, and we will go up at noon. Wo to us! for the day turned away, for the shadows of the evening will stretch forth.read more.
Arise, and we will go up in the night, and we will destroy her fortresses.

Clang ye the trumpet in Zion, shout in my holy mountain: all the inhabitants of the land shall be moved, for the day of Jehovah is coming, for it is near. A day of darkness and of thick darkness; a day of cloud and gloom as the morning spread upon the mountains: great and strong people; the like to him was not from forever, and after him there shall not be added even to the years of generation and generation.

A river, its streams will gladden the city of God, the holy place of the tents of the Most High. God is in her midst, she shall not be moved: God will help her at the face of morning. Nations raged, kingdoms were moved: he gave with his voice, the earth will meltread more.
Jehovah of armies is with us, the God of Jacob a height for us. Silence.

A song of chanting to the sons of Korah. Great is Jehovah, and greatly praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain. Fair of elevation, the joy of all the earth, is mount Zion, the sides of the north, the city of the great King. God being known in her fortresses for a heightread more.
For behold, the kings met together, they passed by together. They saw, so they were astonished; they trembled, they took flight Trembling seized them there, pain as of her bringing forth. With an east wind thou wilt break the ships of Tarshish. As we heard, so we saw in the city of Jehovah of armies, in the city of our God: God will prepare it even forever. Silence. We thought, O God, of thy mercy in the midst of thy temple. According to thy name, O God, so thy praise upon the ends of the earth: thy right hand being full of justice. Mount Zion shall rejoice, the daughters of Judah shall be glad for sake of thy judgments. Surround ye Zion, and go round about her: recount her towers. Set your hearts to her fortification; divide up her palaces, so that ye shall recount to the later generation. For this God is our God forever and ever: he will guide us to death.

Song of ascensions. They trusting in Jehovah are as mount Zion; it shall not be moved; remaining forever. Jerusalem, the mountains are round about to her; and Jehovah is round about to his people from now and even to forever.

This the word that Jehovah spake concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion despising to thee, deriding to thee; the daughter of Jerusalem shook her head after thee. Whom didst thou reproach and revile, and against whom didst thou raise up the voice, and wilt thou lift up thine eyes on high to the Holy One of Israel?

This the word which Jehovah spake concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion despised, she derided thee; after thee the daughter of Jerusalem shook her head. Whom didst thou reproach and revile? and against whom didst thou lift up the voice, and thou wilt lift up thine eyes on high against the holy one of Israel?

And Jehovah shall cry out from Zion, and from Jerusalem he shall give his voice; and the heavens and the earth trembled: and Jehovah the refuge to his people, and the fortress to the sons of Israel.

For I will bring up healing to thee, and I will heal thee of thy blows, says Jehovah: for they called to thee an outcast: This is Zion, none seeking for her. Thus said Jehovah, Behold me turning back the captivity of Jacob's tents, and I will compassionate his habitations; and the city was built upon her hill, and the palace sat upon its judgment And thanksgiving shall go forth from them, and the voice of those playing, and I multiplied them, and they shall not be few; and I honored them, and they shall not be small.read more.
And their sons were as of old, and their testimony shall be prepared before me, and I reviewed upon all pressing them, And his mighty one was from himself, and his ruler shall go forth from his midst.; and I caused him to draw near, and he came near to me: for who this pledging his heart to approach to me? says Jehovah. And ye were to me for a people, and I will be to you for God.

Song of ascensions. In Jehovah turning back the returning of we were as those dreaming. Then our mouth will be filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing: then shall they say among the nations, Jehovah magnified to do with those. Jehovah magnified to do with us; we were made glad.

For thus said Jehovah, That according to the filling up to Babel of seventy years I will review you and lift up to you my good word to turn you back to this place. For I knew the purposes which I purposed concerning you, says Jehovah; purposes of peace, and not for evil, to give to you the last part and expectation. And ye called me, and went and prayed to me, and I heard to you.read more.
And ye sought me and found, for ye will seek me with all your heart. And I was found to you, says Jehovah: and I turned back your captivity, and I gathered you from all the nations, and from all the places where I thrust you away there says Jehovah; and I turned you back to the place where I caused you to be carried away captive from thence.

Behold the days, says Jehovah, and the city was built to Jehovah, from the tower of Hananeel, even to the gate of the corner. And the line of measure shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and it went about Goath. And all the valley of the carcasses and the ashes, and all the fields even to the torrent Kidron, even to the corner of the gate of horses, from the sunrising, a holy place to Jehovah; it shall not be plucked up, and it shall no more be destroyed forever.

In that day, says Jehovah, I will assemble her halting, and I will gather her thrust out, and whom I broke in pieces. And I set her halting for a remnant, and her far removed, for a strong nation: and Jehovah reigning over them in mount Zion from now and even to forever.

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; make a loud noise, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy king shall come to thee: just, and saving; he is humble and riding upon an ass, and upon an ass's colt the son of asses. And I cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war was cut off: and he spake peace to the nations: and his dominion from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the end of the earth.

Behold, Jehovah caused to be heard to the extremity of the earth, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation coming: behold, his reward with him, and his work before his face. And they called to them, The holy people, redeemed of Jehovah: and it shall be called to thee, A city sought for: not forsaken.

And thou, O tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of Zion, even to thee shall it come, and the first dominion: came the kingdom to the daughter of Jerusalem.

To recount in Zion the name of Jehovah, and his praise in Jerusalem. In the gathering of the peoples together, and the kingdoms to serve Jehovah.

I will make mention of Rahab and Babel to those knowing me: behold the rovers, and Tyre, with Cush; this was born there. And to Zion a man will say, And a man was born in her: and he the Most High shall prepare her. Jehovah shall recount in writing up the peoples, This was born there. Silence.

And it was in the last days, the mountain of the house of Jehovah shall be prepared upon the head of the mountains, and lifted up above the hills; and all nations flowed to it And many people went and said, Come, and we will go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us from his ways, and we will go in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem. And he judged between the nations, and he will decide for many peoples: and they shall beat down their swords to plough-shares and their spears to pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, and they shall no more learn war.

And it was in the last of the days the mountain of the house of Jehovah will be prepared upon the head of the mountains, and it was lifted up above the hills, and peoples flowed to it. And many nations went and said, Come, and we will go up to the mountain of Jehovah, and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us from his ways, and we will go in his paths: from Zion will instruction go forth, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem. And he judged between many peoples, and he admonished to strong nations even to far off; and they beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning-knives: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, and they shall no more learn war.

And the son of the stranger joining himself to Jehovah, shall not say, saying, Jehovah separating, will separate me from his people; and the eunuch shall not say, Behold me a dry tree. For thus said Jehovah to the eunuchs who shall watch my Sabbaths, and choose in what I delighted, and taking hold upon my covenant; And I gave to them in my house and in my walls a hand and a name good above sons and above daughters: an eternal name will I give to him which shall not be cut off.read more.
And the sons of the stranger joining themselves to Jehovah to serve him, and to love the name of Jehovah, to be to him for servants, every one watching the Sabbath from defiling it, and taking hold upon my covenant; And I brought them to my holy mountain, and I made them rejoice in the house of my prayer: their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices for acceptance upon mine altar; for my house shall be called the house of prayer for all the peoples.

And every one being left of all the nations coming against Jerusalem, and they went up from year to year to worship to the king, Jehovah of armies, to keep a festival, the festival of booths.

But ye have come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, To the assembly of people, and church of the firstborn, transcribed in the heavens, and to God the Judge of all, and. to the spirits of the just perfected,

As has been written, Behold I set in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence: and every one believing on him shall not be ashamed.

Wherefore also it holds in the writing, Behold, I place in Zion a corner stone, chosen, highly valued: and he believing on him shall not be ashamed.

And he was for a holy place and for a stone of striking, and for a rock of falling to the two houses of Israel; for a trap net and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

For this, thus said the Lord. Jehovah, Behold me placing for a foundation in Zion a stone, a stone of trial, a corner precious, a foundation being founded: and he believing shall not hasten.

And now they feel an ardent desire for a better, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God: for he prepared for them a city.

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