Walk around Zion! Encircle it! Count its towers!

May all who hate Zion be humiliated and turned back!

Zion will be freed by justice, and her returnees by righteousness.

“Zion said, ‘The Lord has abandoned me, the sovereign master has forgotten me.’

I will destroy Daughter Zion, who is as delicate and defenseless as a young maiden.

You build Zion through bloody crimes, Jerusalem through unjust violence.

But David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the city of David).

“I myself have installed my king on Zion, my holy hill.”

Sing praises to the Lord, who rules in Zion! Tell the nations what he has done!

Because you favor Zion, do what is good for her! Fortify the walls of Jerusalem!

The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.

when the Lord rebuilds Zion, and reveals his splendor,

Extol the Lord, O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion!

Let Israel rejoice in their Creator! Let the people of Zion delight in their king!

So the sovereign master will afflict the foreheads of Zion’s women with skin diseases, the Lord will make the front of their heads bald.”

For the Lord has planned a day of revenge, a time when he will repay Edom for her hostility toward Zion.

For wild animals are prowling over Mount Zion, which lies desolate.

“Escape, Zion, you who live among the Babylonians!”

For a remnant will leave Jerusalem; survivors will come out of Mount Zion. The intense devotion of the sovereign Lord to his people will accomplish this.

Then I will tell about all your praiseworthy acts; in the gates of Daughter Zion I will rejoice because of your deliverance.”