Jerusalem:
Jerusalem Loved by God and God's People
Ps 48:1-3
1 Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised,
in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.
2 Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth,
is Mount Zion, on the north sides,
the city of the great King.
3 God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge.
Ps 50:2
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God shines forth.
Ps 78:68
But chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion which he loved.
Ps 87:1-3,5-7
1 His foundation is in the holy mountains.
2 Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
3 Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God.
5 Yes, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one was born in her;”
the Most High himself will establish her.
6 Yahweh will count, when he writes up the peoples,
“This one was born there.”
7 Those who sing as well as those who dance say,
“All my springs are in you.”
Ps 102:13-16
13 You will arise and have mercy on Zion;
for it is time to have pity on her.
Yes, the set time has come.
14 For your servants take pleasure in her stones,
and have pity on her dust.
15 So the nations will fear the name of Yahweh;
all the kings of the earth your glory.
16 For Yahweh has built up Zion.
He has appeared in his glory.
Ps 122:2,3,6
2 Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem;
3 Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together;
6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
Those who love you will prosper.
Ps 128:5
May Yahweh bless you out of Zion,
and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.
Ps 129:5
Let them be disappointed and turned backward,
all those who hate Zion.
Ps 132:13,14
13 For Yahweh has chosen Zion.
He has desired it for his habitation.
14 “This is my resting place forever.
Here I will live, for I have desired it.
Ps 137:5,6
5 If I forget you, Jerusalem,
let my right hand forget its skill.
6 Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you;
if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Is 49:14-16
14 But Zion said, Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.
15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on
the son of her womb? yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you.
16 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are
continually before me.
Ezk 16:3-14
3 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem: Your birth and your birth is
of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was your father, and your mother was a
Hittite.
4 As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, neither
were you washed in water to cleanse you; you weren’t salted at all, nor
swaddled at all.
5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion on
you; but you were cast out in the open field, for that your person was abhorred,
in the day that you were born.
6 When I passed by you, and saw you weltering in your blood, I said to you, Though
you are in your blood, live; yes, I said to you, Though you are in
your blood, live.
7 I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased
and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament; your breasts were
fashioned, and your hair was grown; yet you were naked and bare.
8 Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of
love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore
to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Yahweh, and you
became mine.
9 Then washed I you with water; yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from
you, and I anointed you with oil.
10 I clothed you also with embroidered work, and shod you with sealskin, and I
girded you about with fine linen, and covered you with silk.
11 I decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain
on your neck.
12 I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown
on your head.
13 Thus you were decked with gold and silver; and your clothing was of fine
linen, and silk, and embroidered work; you ate fine flour, and honey, and oil;
and you were exceeding beautiful, and you prospered to royal estate.
14 Your renown went forth among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect,
through my majesty which I had put on you, says the Lord Yahweh.
Zc 1:14
So the angel who talked with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says
Yahweh of Armies: “I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great
jealousy.
Zc 8:2
Thus says Yahweh of Armies: “I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I
am jealous for her with great wrath.”