²⁰ Let your eyes be resting on Zion, the town of our holy feasts: you will see Jerusalem, a quiet resting-place, a tent which will not be moved, whose tent-pins will never be pulled up, and whose cords will never be broken.

⁵ God has taken his place in her; she will not be moved: he will come to her help at the dawn of morning.

² Make wide the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your house be stretched out without limit: make your cords long, and your tent-pins strong.

¹⁸ And my people will be living in peace, in houses where there is no fear, and in quiet resting-places.

¹² Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the house of my God, and he will go out no more: and I will put on him the name of my God, and the name of the town of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my new name.

¹⁸ And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock will my church be based, and the doors of hell will not overcome it.

³⁵ It is to be eighteen thousand all round: and the name of the town from that day will be, The Lord is there.

³³ For this cause the Lord says about the king of Assyria, He will not come into this town, or send an arrow against it; he will not come before it with arms, or put up an earthwork against it.

⁵ May the Lord send you blessing out of Zion: may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

¹ <A Song of the going up.> Those whose hope is in the Lord are like the mountain of Zion, which may not be moved, but keeps its place for ever.

² As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people, from this time and for ever.

⁶⁸ But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.

⁶⁹ And he made his holy place like the high heaven, like the earth which is fixed by him for ever.

¹² Make your way about Zion, and go round it, numbering its towers.

¹³ Take note of its strong walls, looking well at its fair buildings; so that you may give word of it to the generation which comes after.

⁵ But let your hearts be turned to the place which will be marked out by the Lord your God, among your tribes, to put his name there;