Church: Love For
Source: Nav
Psalm 102:14
For Your servants delight in her stones and take pity on her dust.
Psalm 122:6, 9
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May those who love you prosper. / For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your prosperity.
Psalm 128:5, 6
May the LORD bless you from Zion, that you may see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life, / that you may see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!
Psalm 137:1–6
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. / There on the willows we hung our harps, / for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”
Isaiah 22:4
Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
Isaiah 58:12
Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of the Streets of Dwelling.
Isaiah 62:1, 6, 7
For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep still, until her righteousness shines like a bright light, her salvation like a blazing torch. / On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves, / nor give Him any rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.
Isaiah 66:10, 13, 14
Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her, all who love her. Rejoice greatly with her, all who mourn over her, / As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.” / When you see, you will rejoice, and you will flourish like grass; then the hand of the LORD will be revealed to His servants, but His wrath will be shown to His enemies.
Jeremiah 9:1
Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.
Jeremiah 14:17
You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.
Jeremiah 51:50, 51
You who have escaped the sword, depart and do not linger! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come to mind.” / “We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD’s house.”
Lamentations 2:11
My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
Lamentations 3:48–51
Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people. / My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief, / until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.