¹³ For Jehovah hath chosen Zion; He hath desired it for his habitation.

¹⁶ Why look ye askance, ye high mountains, At the mountain which God hath desired for his abode? Yea, Jehovah will dwell `in it' for ever.

¹ Great is Jehovah, 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 sides of the north, The city of the great King.

³ God hath made himself known in her palaces for a refuge.

¹ In Judah is God known: His name is great in Israel.

² In Salem also is his tabernacle, And his dwelling-place in Zion.

⁶⁸ But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he loved.

⁶⁹ And he built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he hath established for ever.

² Jehovah loveth the gates of Zion More than all the dwellings of Jacob.

³² What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation? That Jehovah hath founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his people take refuge.

²² but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,