Psalm 137:3

Lament During The Babylonian Exile

² On the willows there we hung our harps, ³ for it was there that our captors asked us for songs and our torturers demanded joy from us, "Sing us one of the songs about Zion!" ⁴ How are we to sing the song of the LORD on foreign soil?

For Us

Songs of Zion

Zion

1 Chronicles 15:27

David wore a robe made from fine linen, as did all of the descendants of Levi who were carrying the ark, the singers, and Chenaniah the music and choir director. David also wore a linen ephod.

1 Chronicles 16:7

On that very day, David composed this psalm of thanksgiving to the LORD just for Asaph and his companions:

Nehemiah 4:2

He addressed his allies and the Samaritan officials, saying "What are these pathetic Jews doing? Are they intending to rebuild it by themselves? Do they intend to offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a single day? Can they make stones from this burned out rubble?"

Psalm 9:14

so I may declare everything for which you should be praised in the gates of the daughter of Zion, so I will rejoice in your deliverance.

Psalm 65:1

In Zion, God, praise silently awaits you, and vows will be paid to you.

Psalm 79:1

God, nations have invaded your land to desecrate your holy Temple, to destroy Jerusalem,

Psalm 80:6

You have set us at strife against our neighbors and our enemies deride us.

Psalm 123:3-4

Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy, for we have had more than enough of contempt.

Isaiah 35:10

and the LORD's ransomed ones will return and enter Zion with singing. Everlasting joy will rest upon their heads, gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and mourning will flee away."

Isaiah 51:11

"The scattered ones of the LORD will return, and they will enter Zion with singing. Everlasting joy will be upon their heads; they will attain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

Jeremiah 9:11

"I'll make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a refuge for jackals. I'll make the towns of Judah desolate, without inhabitants."

Jeremiah 26:18

"Micah of Moresheth prophesied during the reign of Hezekiah king of Judah to all the people of Judah, "This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "Zion will be a plowed field, and Jerusalem a ruin. The Temple Mount will be a wooded hill."'

Jeremiah 31:12-13

They'll come and cry out with joy on the heights of Zion. They'll be radiant over the LORD's goodness, over the grain, the new wine, the fresh oil, and over the young of the flocks and herds. Their lives will be like a well-watered garden. They'll never again grow faint.

Lamentations 2:15-16

Everyone who passes by on the road shake their fists at you. They hiss and shake their heads at cherished Jerusalem: "Is this the city men used to call "The Perfection of Beauty,' and "The Joy of the Entire Earth'"?

Micah 3:12

"Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed up like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the Temple Mount like a forest high place."

Luke 21:6

"As for these things that you see, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another that won't be knocked down."

Revelation 14:1-3

Then I looked, and there was the lamb, standing on Mount Zion! With him were 144,000 people who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.