¹³ For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.

¹⁶ Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, At the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.

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

³ God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge.

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

² His tent is also in Salem; His dwelling place in Zion.

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

⁶⁹ He built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he has established forever.

² Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

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

²² But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,