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Want to know what the Bible says about Zion? Here are 130 Bible verses about Zion from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Psalm 132:13 NIV
For the Lord has chosen Zion,
    he has desired it for his dwelling, saying,
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Psalm 87:2 NIV
The Lord loves the gates of Zion
    more than all the other dwellings of Jacob.
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Isaiah 60:14 NIV
The children of your oppressors will come bowing before you;
    all who despise you will bow down at your feet
and will call you the City of the Lord,
    Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
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Isaiah 35:10 NIV
    and those the Lord has rescued will return.
They will enter Zion with singing;
    everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy will overtake them,
    and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
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Isaiah 51:3 NIV
The Lord will surely comfort Zion
    and will look with compassion on all her ruins;
he will make her deserts like Eden,
    her wastelands like the garden of the Lord.
Joy and gladness will be found in her,
    thanksgiving and the sound of singing.
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Revelation 14:1 NIV
Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.
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Isaiah 51:16 NIV
I have put my words in your mouth
    and covered you with the shadow of my hand
I who set the heavens in place,
    who laid the foundations of the earth,
    and who say to Zion, ‘You are my people. ’”
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Hebrews 12:22 NIV
But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly,
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Isaiah 52:2 NIV
Shake off your dust;
    rise up, sit enthroned, Jerusalem.
Free yourself from the chains on your neck,
    Daughter Zion, now a captive.
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2 Samuel 5:7 NIV
Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion —which is the City of David.
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Romans 9:33 NIV
As it is written:
“See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble
    and a rock that makes them fall,
    and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.”
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Psalm 137:1 NIV
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept
    when we remembered Zion.
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Zechariah 2:10 NIV
“Shout and be glad, Daughter Zion. For I am coming, and I will live among you,” declares the Lord.
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Psalm 48:2 NIV
Beautiful in its loftiness,
    the joy of the whole earth,
like the heights of Zaphon is Mount Zion,
    the city of the Great King.
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1 Peter 2:6 NIV
For in Scripture it says:
“See, I lay a stone in Zion,
    a chosen and precious cornerstone,
and the one who trusts in him
    will never be put to shame.”
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Psalm 48:11 NIV
Mount Zion rejoices,
    the villages of Judah are glad
    because of your judgments.
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Zechariah 9:9 NIV
Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion!
    Shout, Daughter Jerusalem!
See, your king comes to you,
    righteous and victorious,
lowly and riding on a donkey,
    on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
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Psalm 74:2 NIV
Remember the nation you purchased long ago,
    the people of your inheritance, whom you redeemed
    Mount Zion, where you dwelt.
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Psalm 9:11 NIV
Sing the praises of the Lord, enthroned in Zion;
    proclaim among the nations what he has done.
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1 Kings 8:1 NIV
Then King Solomon summoned into his presence at Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the Lord’s covenant from Zion, the City of David.
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