"Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah."
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Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:
In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither.
Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan.
Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.
Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for 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.
There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.
And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
Noble things are said of you, O town of God. (Selah.)
Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Selah.
Honourable things are spoken in Thee, O city of God. Selah.