When I was in trouble, I called to the LORD, and he answered me.

We were not helped at all by our pagan worship on the hilltops. Help for Israel comes only from the LORD our God.

"On Zion, my sacred hill," he says, "I have installed my king."

What a mighty mountain is Bashan, a mountain of many peaks!

Why from your mighty peaks do you look with scorn on the mountain on which God chose to live? The LORD will live there forever!

Instead he chose the tribe of Judah and Mount Zion, which he dearly loves.

The LORD built his city on the sacred hill;

LORD, I look up to you, up to heaven, where you rule.

and their people will say, "Let us go up the hill of the LORD, to the Temple of Israel's God. He will teach us what he wants us to do; we will walk in the paths he has chosen. For the LORD's teaching comes from Jerusalem; from Zion he speaks to his people."