Bible Topics for Kids
ZION, Name of, applied to Jerusalem
Psalms 87:2-5
2. The LORD loves the gates of ZION more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
3. Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God.Selah.
4. I will record Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me.Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia:"This one was born there."
5. Yes, of ZION it will be said, "This one and that one was born in her";the Most High himself will establish her.
Psalms 149:2
Let Israel rejoice in him who made them.Let the children of ZION be joyful in their King.
Song of Solomon 3:11
Go out, you daughters of ZION, and see king Solomon,with the crown with which his mother has crowned him,in the day of his weddings,in the day of the gladness of his heart.
Isaiah 33:14-20
14. The sinners in ZION are afraid.Trembling has seized the godless ones.Who among us can live with the devouring fire?Who among us can live with everlasting burning?
15. He who walks righteously,and speaks blamelessly;He who despises the gain of oppressions,who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe,who stops his ears from hearing of blood,and shuts his eyes from looking at evil-
16. he will dwell on high.His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks.His bread will be supplied.His waters will be sure.
17. Your eyes will see the king in his beauty.They will see a distant land.
18. Your heart will meditate on the terror.Where is he who counted?Where is he who weighed?Where is he who counted the towers?
19. You will no longer see the fierce people,a people of a deep speech that you can't comprehend,with a strange language that you can't understand.
20. Look at ZION, the city of our appointed festivals.Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation,a tent that won't be removed.Its stakes will never be plucked up,nor will any of its cords be broken.
Jeremiah 9:19
For a voice of wailing is heard out of ZION,'How we are ruined!We are greatly confounded,because we have forsaken the land,because they have cast down our dwellings.'"
Jeremiah 30:17
For I will restore health to you,and I will heal you of your wounds," says The LORD;"because they have called you an outcast,saying, 'It is ZION, whom no man seeks after.'"