Israel G-od's Beloved

Israel beloved by G'od

Deuteronomy 14:2, "For you are a holy people to YHWH your God, and God has chosen you to be his treasured people from all the nations that are on the face of the earth."

"And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you." (Genesis 17:7).

"And you shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation" (Exodus 19:6).

"The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all people; but because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your ancestors." (Deuteronomy 7:7-8).
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(Psalm 132:13-15) ''For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation.''

 "God loves the gates of Zion above all the dwelling places of Jacob." ( Psalms 87:20)

(Psalm 9:11) ''Sing praises to the Lord who dwells in Zion; declare His deeds among the people.''

(Psalm 14:7) ''Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion! When the Lord turns back the captivity of His people, Jacob will rejoice, and Israel will be glad.''

(Psalm 20:2) ''may He send you help from the sanctuary, and strengthen you from Zion;''

(Psalm 50:2) ''Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined.''

(Psalm 53:6) ''Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back the captivity of His people, Jacob will rejoice and Israel will be glad.''

[ Psalm 65:1 ] ''For the Music Director. A Psalm of David. A Song. ] Praise awaits You, O God, in Zion; and to You a vow will be fulfilled.''

(Psalm 74:2) ''Remember Your congregation, which You have aquired of old, the rod of Your inheritance, which You have redeemed, this Mount Zion, where You have lived.''

(Psalm 76:2) ''In Salem is His abode, and His dwelling place in Zion.''

(Psalm 78:68) ''..but (he) chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which He loves.''

(Psalm 84:5) ''Blessed is the man whose strength is in You, in whose heart are the paths to Zion.''

(Psalm 84:7) ''They go from strength to strength; every one of them appears in Zion before God.''

(Psalm 87:2) '' The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.''

(Psalm 97:8) ''Zion hears and is glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoice because of Your judgments, O Lord.''

(Psalm 99:2) ''The Lord is great in Zion; He is high above all the peoples.''

(Psalm 102:13) ''You shall arise, and have mercy upon Zion, for the time to favor her, indeed, the appointed time has come.''

(Psalm 102:16) ''For the Lord shall build up Zion; He shall appear in His glory.''

(Psalm 102:21) ''..that they may declare the name of the Lord in Zion and His praise in Jerusalem..''

(Psalm 110:2) ''The Lord shall send your mighty scepter out of Zion; rule in the midst of your enemies.''

[ Psalm 125:1 ] "A song of Ascents. Those who trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abides forever.''

(Psalm 128:5) ''The Lord shall bless you from Zion, and may you see the welfare of Jerusalem all the days of your life.''

(Psalm 129:5.) ''Let all those be shamed and turned back who hate Zion.''

(Psalm 132:13) ''For the Lord has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling.''

(Psalm 133:3). ''..as the dew of Hermon, that descends upon the mountains of Zion, for there the Lord has commanded the blessing, even life forever.''

(Psalm 134:3) ''May the Lord who made heaven and earth bless you from Zion.''

(Psalm 135:21) ''Blessed be the Lord from Zion, who dwells at Jerusalem. Praise you the Lord!''

(Psalm 137:1) ''By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down & wept when we remembered Zion.''

(Isaiah 2:3) ''Many people shall go and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.''

(Isaiah 4:3) ''He who is left in Zion and he who remains in Jerusalem shall be called holy, even everyone who is written among the living in Jerusalem.''

(Isaiah 4:3-5) '' He who is left in Zion and he who remains in Jerusalem shall be called holy, even everyone who is written among the living in Jerusalem. 4 When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and has purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst by the spirit of justice and by the spirit of burning, 5 then the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of Mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night. For over all the glory shall be a covering.''

(Isaiah 12:6) ''Cry out and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Zion. For great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst.''

(Isaiah 14:32) ''What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the Lord has founded Zion, and the poor of His people shall trust in it.''

(Isaiah 24:23) ''Then the moon shall be humiliated and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of Hosts reigns in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and His glory shall be before His elders.''

(Isaiah 29:8) ''It shall even be as when a hungry man dreams, and he eats; but when he awakens, his hunger is not satisfied; or as when a thirsty man dreams, and he is drinking; but when he awakens, he is faint, and his thirst is not quenched; so shall the multitude of all the nations be who fight against Mount Zion.''

(Isaiah 30:19) ''O people in Zion, inhabitants in Jerusalem, you shall weep no more. He will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry. When He hears it, He will answer you.''

(Isaiah 31:4)
For thus the Lord has spoken to me: Like the lion, and the young lion, roars over his prey, against which a multitude of shepherds is called out against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor disturbed at their noise, so shall the Lord of Hosts come down to fight for Mount Zion, and for its hill.

(Isaiah 31:9)
He shall cross over to his stronghold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the banner,” says the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

(Isaiah 33:5)
The Lord is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

(Isaiah 33:20)
Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts; your eyes shall see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of its stakes shall ever be removed, nor shall any of its cords be broken.

(Isaiah 34:8)
For it is the day of the vengeance of the Lord, and the year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

(Isaiah 35:10)
and the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

(Isaiah 40:9) ''O Zion, bearer of good news, get yourself up onto a high mountain; O Jerusalem, bearer of good news, lift up your voice with strength, lift it up, do not be afraid; say to the cities of Judah, “Here is your God!”

(Isaiah 46:13.) ''I bring My righteousness near; it shall not be far off, and My salvation shall not tarry. And I will grant salvation in Zion, and My glory for Israel.''

(Isaiah 51:3) ''For the Lord shall comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found in it, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.''

(Isaiah 51:11) ''Therefore, the redeemed of the Lord shall return and come with singing to Zion, and everlasting joy shall be upon their head. They shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.''

(Isaiah 51:16)
''I have put My words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of My hand that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, “You are My people.”

(Isaiah 52:1)
''Awake, awake! Put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city. For the uncircumcised and the unclean will no longer enter you.''

(Isaiah 52:7). ''How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who proclaims peace, who brings good news of happiness, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

(Isaiah 59:20) ''The Redeemer shall come to Zion and to those who turn from transgression in Jacob, says the Lord.''

(Isaiah 60:14)
The sons also of those who afflicted you shall come bowing before you, and all those who despised you shall bow themselves down at the soles of your feet; and they shall call you, The City of the Lord, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

(isaiah 62:1) ''For the sake of Zion I will not keep silent, and for the sake of Jerusalem I will not rest until her righteousness goes forth as brightness and her salvation as a lamp that burns.''

(Isaiah 62:11) ''The Lord has proclaimed to the ends of the earth: Say to the daughter of Zion, “See, your salvation comes; see, His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him.”

(Jeremiah 3:14). ''Return, O backsliding sons, says the Lord. For I am married to you. And I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.''

(Jeremiah 8:19). ''Listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from a far country: “Is not the Lord in Zion? Is not her king in her?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their graven images, with foreign vanities?”

(Jeremiah 50:5)
They will ask for the way to Zion with their faces in its direction. They will come that they may join themselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that will not be forgotten.

(Jeremiah 51:10)
The Lord has brought forth our righteousness. Come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the Lord our God.

(Jeremiah 51:24)
I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says the Lord.

(Joel 2:32)
And it will be that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the Lord has said, and among the survivors whom the Lord calls.

(Joel 3:16)
The Lord roars from Zion, and sounds His voice from Jerusalem, and heaven and earth quake. But the Lord is a refuge for His people, and a stronghold for the children of Israel.

(Joel 3:17)
Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain. And Jerusalem will be holy, and invaders will never again pass through her.

(Obadiah 1:17)
But on Mount Zion there shall be deliverance, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess those who dispossessed them.

(Micah 4:2)
And many nations will come and say, “Come, that we might go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob, that He might teach us His ways, and that we might walk in His paths.” For from Zion will go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

(Micah 4:7)
and I will make the lame into a remnant, and the banished into a mighty nation; and the Lord will reign over them on Mount Zion from this time forth and forevermore.

(Micah 4:8)
As for you, watchtower of the flock, citadel of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, the former dominion will come, kingship for the daughter of Jerusalem.

(Zephaniah 3:14
Sing, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem!

(Zechariah 1:14)
So the angel who spoke with me said, Cry out, saying: Thus says the Lord of Hosts: I have a great jealousy for Jerusalem and Zion.

(Zechariah 1:17)
Cry out again, saying, Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Yet again My cities will overflow with goodness, and again the Lord will comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.

(Zechariah 2:10)
Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for I am coming and will dwell in your midst, says the Lord.

(Zechariah 8:3)
Thus says the Lord: I have returned to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem will be called a city of faithfulness and the mountain of the Lord of Hosts, the holy mountain.