Her gates will mourn and lament; deprived of her people, she will sit on the ground.

Send rams as tribute to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the desert to the hill of Daughter Zion.

I will threaten Ariel, and she will mourn intensely and become like an altar hearth before me.

Your plunder disappears as if locusts were eating it; they swarm over it like locusts!

What my eyes see grieves me – all the suffering of the daughters in my city.

On that day a fugitive will come to you to report the news.

The Lord who rules over all says, ‘It will someday come to pass that people – residents of many cities – will come.

When he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom.

Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and others who were members of the high priest’s family.

begging us with great earnestness for the blessing and fellowship of helping the saints.

For it is not necessary for me to write you about this service to the saints,

The city remained under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

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

May he send you help from his temple; from Zion may he give you support!

Walk around Zion! Encircle it! Count its towers!

Written by the Korahites; a psalm, a song. The Lord’s city is in the holy hills.

The Lord is elevated in Zion; he is exalted over all the nations.

when the Lord rebuilds Zion, and reveals his splendor,

May there be peace inside your defenses, and prosperity inside your fortresses!

May all who hate Zion be humiliated and turned back!