The city of the great King is well planted [on] the mountains of Zion, with the joy of the whole earth, [on] the sides of the north.

God is known in her palaces, when He undertakes to help her.

Let Mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah rejoice, because of Your judgments, O Lord.

Mark well her strength, and observe her palaces; that you may tell the next generation.

A Song of Degrees. They that trust in the Lord [shall be] as Mount Zion: he that dwells in Jerusalem shall never be moved.

The mountains are round about her, and [so] the Lord is round about His people, from this time forth and forever.

Exalt and rejoice, you that dwell in Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is exalted in the midst of her.

But Zion said, The Lord has forsaken me, and, The Lord has forgotten me.

Behold, I have painted your walls on My hands, and you are continually before Me.

Lift up your eyes round about, and look on them all; behold, they are gathered together, and have come to you. [As] I live, says the Lord, you shall clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and put them on, as a bride in her attire.

For your sons whom you have lost shall say in your ears, The place [is too] narrow for me; make room for me that I may dwell.

Thus says the Lord, [even] the Lord, Behold, I lift up My hand to the nations, and I will lift up My signal to the islands; and they shall bring your sons in [their] bosom, and shall bear your daughters on [their] shoulders.

Will anyone take spoils from a giant? And if one should take [a man] captive unjustly, shall he be delivered?

And they that afflicted you shall eat their own flesh; and they shall drink their own blood as new wine, and shall be drunk; and all flesh shall perceive that I am the Lord that delivers you, and that upholds the strength of Jacob.

Enlarge the place of your tent, and of your curtains; fix [the pins], spare not, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your pins;

Fear not, because you have been put to shame, neither be confounded, because you were reproached; for you shall forget your former shame, and shall no more at all remember the reproach of your widowhood.

The Lord has not called you as a deserted and faint-hearted woman, nor as a woman hated from [her] youth, says your God.

In a little wrath I turned away My face from you; but with everlasting mercy will I have compassion upon you, says the Lord that delivers you.

shall the mountains depart, nor shall your hills be removed; so neither shall My mercy fail you, nor shall the covenant of your peace be at all removed; for the Lord [who is] gracious to you has spoken [it].

And the deliverer shall come for Zion's sake, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

And this shall be My covenant with them, said the Lord; My Spirit which is upon you, and the words which I have put in your mouth, shall never fail from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your seed, for the Lord has spoken it, henceforth and forever!

Be enlightened, be enlightened, O Jerusalem, for your light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you!

And kings shall walk in your light, and nations in your brightness.

Then shall you see, and fear, and be amazed in your heart; for the wealth of the sea shall come round to you, and of nations and peoples; and herds of camels shall come to you,

And all the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered, and the rams of Nebaioth shall come; and acceptable sacrifices shall be offered on My altar, and My house of prayer shall be glorified.

The isles have waited for Me, and the ships of Tarshish among the first, to bring your children from afar, and their silver and their gold with them, and [that] for the sake of the holy name of the Lord, and because the Holy One of Israel is glorified.

And your gates shall be opened continually; they shall not be shut, day or night; to bring in to you the power of the Gentiles, and their kings as captives.

And the glory of Lebanon shall come to you, with the cypress, and pine, and cedar together, to glorify My holy place.

Because you have become desolate and hated, and there was no helper, therefore I will make you a perpetual gladness, a joy of many generations.

And for brass I will bring you gold, and for iron I will bring you silver, and instead of wood I will bring you brass, and instead of stones, iron; and I will make your princes peaceable, and your overseers righteous.

And you shall no more have the sun for a light by day, nor shall the rising of the moon lighten your night; but the Lord shall be your everlasting light, and God your glory.

Your people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land forever, preserving that which they have planted, [even] the works of their hands, for glory.

that there should be given to them that mourn in Zion glory instead of ashes, the oil of joy to the mourners, the garment of glory for the spirit of heaviness; and they shall be called generations of righteousness, the planting of the Lord for glory.

And strangers shall come and feed your flocks, and aliens [shall be your] plowmen and vinedressers.

Thus shall they inherit the land a second time, and everlasting joy shall be upon their head.

And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring in the midst of peoples; everyone that sees them shall take notice of them, that they are a seed blessed of God;

And as the earth putting forth her flowers, and as a garden its seed; so shall the Lord, [even] the Lord, cause righteousness to spring forth, and exaltation before all nations.

For Zion's sake I will not hold My peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as light, and My salvation burn as a torch.

And you shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

And as a young man lives with a virgin, so shall your sons dwell in [you]; and it shall come to pass [that] as a bridegroom will rejoice over a bride, so will the Lord rejoice over you.

For there is none like You, when He shall have established, and made Jerusalem a praise on the earth.

But they that have gathered them shall eat them, and they shall praise the Lord; and they that have gathered [the grapes] shall drink thereof in My holy courts.

For behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth, say to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your Savior has come to you, having His reward and His work before His face.

Turn, you children that have revolted, says the Lord; for I will rule over you. And I will take you, one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you in to Zion.

And it shall come to pass that when you are multiplied and increased upon the land, says the Lord, in those days they shall say no more, The ark of the Covenant of the Holy One of Israel. It shall not come to mind; it shall not be named; neither shall it be visited; nor shall [this] be done anymore.

And they shall come, and shall rejoice in the mount of Zion, and shall come to the good things of the Lord, to a land of wheat, and wine, and fruits, and cattle, and sheep. And their soul shall be as a fruitful tree; and they shall hunger no more.

Then shall the virgins rejoice in the assembly of youth, and the old men shall rejoice; and I will turn their mourning into joy, and will make them merry.

Thus says the Lord God: Because the enemy has said against you, Aha, the old waste places have become a possession for us;

And I will multiply men and cattle upon you, and I will cause you to dwell as at the beginning, and I will treat you well, as in your former [times]; and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Thus says the Lord God: Because they said to you, You devour men, and have been bereaved of your nation;

And there shall no more be heard against you the reproach of the nations, and you shall no more bear the revilings of the peoples, says the Lord God.

Son of man, the house of Israel dwelt upon their land, and defiled it by their way, and with their idols, and with their uncleannesses; and their way was before Me like the uncleanness of a removed woman.

and I dispersed them among the nations, and utterly scattered them through the countries. I judged them according to their way and according to their sin.

but I spared them for the sake of My holy name, which the house of Israel profaned among the nations, among whom they went.

And I will sanctify My great name, which was profaned among the nations, which you profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, when I am sanctified among you before their eyes.

and I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be purged from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, and I will cleanse you.

And I will put My Spirit in you, and will cause you to walk in My ordinances, and to keep My judgments, and do [them].

And I will save you from all your uncleannesses; and I will call for the grain, and multiply it, and will not bring famine upon you.

And you shall remember your evil ways and your practices that were not good, and you shall be hateful in your own sight for your transgressions and for your abominations.

Thus says the Lord God: In the day in which I shall cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will also cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste [places] shall be built upon;

And they shall say, That desolate land has become like a garden of delight; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are inhabited.

Thus says the Lord God: Yet [for] this will I be sought by the house of Israel, to establish them; I will multiply them, [even] men as sheep;

And My tabernacle shall be among them; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be My people.

And the nations shall know that I am the Lord that sanctifies them, when My sanctuary is in the midst of them forever.

And it came to pass in the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the first month, on the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth year after the taking of the city, in that day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me

And He brought me in there, and behold, [there was] a man, and the appearance of him was as the appearance of shining brass, and in his hand was a builder's line, and a measuring reed; and he stood at the gate.

And behold, a wall round about the house outside, and in the man's hand was a reed, the measure [of it was] six cubits by the cubit, and a span. And he measured across the front wall; the breadth was equal to the reed, and the length of it equal to the reed.

And the chamber was equal in length to the reed, and equal in breadth to the reed; and the porch between the chambers [was] six cubits; and the second chamber equal in breadth to the reed, and equal in length to the reed, and the porch [was] five cubits.

And the porch of the gateway [near the porch of the gate] [was] eight cubits; and the posts there of two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.

And he measured the breadth of the door of the gateway, ten cubits; and the breadth of the gateway [was] thirteen cubits.

And he measured the gate from the wall of one chamber to the wall of the other chamber. The breadth was twenty-five cubits, the one gate over against the other gate.

And the open space of the gate outside to the open space of the porch of the gate within was fifty cubits.

And he brought me into the inner court, and behold, [there were] chambers, and peristyles round about the court; thirty chambers within the ranges of columns.

And he measured the breadth of the court, from the open space of the outer gate inwards to the open space of the gate looking outwards: a hundred cubits [was the distance to the place] of the gate looking eastward. And he brought me to the north.

and the chambers, three on this side and three on that; and the posts, and the porches, and the palm trees thereof: and they were according to the measures of the gate that looks eastward: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof was twenty-five cubits.

And [there was] a gate to the inner court looking toward the north gate, after the manner of the gate looking toward the east; and he measured the court from gate to gate, a hundred cubits.

And its windows and its porches round about were according to the windows of the porch: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof was twenty-five cubits.

And [there was] a gate opposite the gate of the inner court southward. And he measured the court from gate to gate, a hundred cubits in breadth southward.

and the chambers, and the posts, and the porches, according to these measures; and [there were] windows to it and to the porches round about: its length was fifty cubits, and [its] breadth [was] twenty-five cubits,

from the porch to the outer court: and [there were] palm trees to the post [thereof], and eight steps.

and the chambers, and the posts, and the porches according to these measures: and [there were] windows to it, and porches round about: the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth of it [was] twenty-five cubits.

And he brought me in at the northern gate, and measured [it] according to these measures:

And its porches were toward the inner court; and [there were] palm trees to the posts on this side and on that side; and it [had] eight steps.

that they might slay in it the sin offerings and the trespass offerings.

Four on one side and four on the other side behind the gate; [and] upon them they kill the victims, in front of the eight tables of sacrifices.

And they shall have within a border of hewn stone round about of a span broad, and over the tables above [were] screens for covering [them] from the wet and from the heat.

And he said to me, This chamber that looks to the south, is for the priests that keep the charge of the house.

And he measured the court, its length [was] a hundred cubits, and the breadth a hundred cubits, on its four sides; and the altar in front of the house.

And the length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth twelve cubits; and they went up to it by ten steps; and [there were] pillars to the porch, one on this side and one on that side.

And these are the names of the tribes from the northern corner, on the side of the decent that draws a line to the entrance of Hamath the palace of Elam, the border of Damascus northward on the side of Hamath the palace; and they shall have the eastern parts as far as the sea, for Dan, one [portion.]

And from the borders of Asher, from the eastern parts as far as the west coasts, for Naphtali, one.

And from the borders of Manasseh, from the eastern parts as far as the west coasts, for Ephraim, one.

And from the borders of Reuben, from the eastern parts as far as the west coasts, for Judah, one.

[As for] the firstfruits which they shall offer to the Lord, [it shall be] in length twenty-five thousand, and in breadth twenty-five thousand.

for the priests, for the consecrated sons of Zadok, who keep the charges of the house, who erred not in the error of the children of Israel, as the Levites erred.

And the Levites [shall have] the [part] next to the borders of the priests, in length twenty-five thousand, and in breadth ten thousand: the whole length [shall be] twenty-five thousand, and the breadth twenty thousand.

But [concerning] the five thousand that remain in the breadth in the twenty-five thousand, they shall be a suburb to the city for dwelling, and for a space before it; and the city shall be in the midst thereof.

And there shall be a space to the city northward two hundred and fifty, and southward two hundred and fifty, and eastward two hundred and fifty, and westward two hundred and fifty.

And they that labor for the city shall labor for it out of all the tribes of Israel.

And the prince [shall have] the remainder on this side and on that side from the firstfruits of the sanctuary, and [there shall be] a possession of the city, for twenty-five thousand cubits in length, to the eastern and western borders, for twenty-five thousand to the western borders, next to the portions of the prince; and the firstfruits of the holy things and the sanctuary of the house [shall be] in the midst of it.

And [as for] the rest of the tribes, from the eastern parts as far as the western, Benjamin [shall have] one [portion].

And from the borders of Simeon, from the eastern parts to the western, Issachar, one.

And from the borders of Zebulun, from the east to the western parts, Gad, one.

This is the land, which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, says the Lord God.

And the gates of the city [shall be] after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; the gate of Reuben, one, and the gate of Judah, one, and the gate of Levi, one.

And southward, four thousand and five hundred by measure; and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one, and the gate of Issachar, one, and the gate of Zebulun, one.

The circumference, eighteen thousand [measures]. And the name of the city, from the day that it shall be finished, shall be THE LORD IS THERE.

But you have come to Zion, to the Mountain and city of the living God, to a heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,

to the general assembly and church of the firstborn having been enrolled in [the] heavens, to God the Judge of all, and to spirits of just men made perfect,

And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His name and the name of His Father having been written on their foreheads.

And he carried me away in spirit onto a great and high mountain, and he showed to me the holy city Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

having a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel:

And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

The city is laid out [like] a square; its length is as great as its breadth. And he measured the city with the reed: twelve thousand furlongs. Its length, breadth, and height are equal.

And the construction of its wall was of jasper; and the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.

But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty is its temple, also the Lamb.

And the nations shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth shall bring to it [the] glory and honor of the nations into it.

And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it, so that they may enter.