逐节对照
- New English Translation - People say wonderful things about you, O city of God. (Selah)
- 新标点和合本 - 神的城啊, 有荣耀的事乃指着你说的。细拉
- 和合本2010(上帝版-简体) - 上帝的城啊, 有荣耀的事是指着你说的。(细拉)
- 和合本2010(神版-简体) - 神的城啊, 有荣耀的事是指着你说的。(细拉)
- 当代译本 - 上帝的城啊, 人们传扬你的荣耀。(细拉)
- 圣经新译本 - 神的城啊! 有 很多荣耀的事,都是指着你说的。 (细拉)
- 中文标准译本 - 神的城啊, 有许多荣耀的事是指着你说的!细拉
- 现代标点和合本 - 神的城啊, 有荣耀的事乃指着你说的。(细拉)
- 和合本(拼音版) - 上帝的城啊, 有荣耀的事乃指着你说的。细拉
- New International Version - Glorious things are said of you, city of God:
- New International Reader's Version - City of God, the Lord says glorious things about you.
- English Standard Version - Glorious things of you are spoken, O city of God. Selah
- New Living Translation - O city of God, what glorious things are said of you! Interlude
- Christian Standard Bible - Glorious things are said about you, city of God. Selah
- New American Standard Bible - Glorious things are spoken of you, City of God. Selah
- New King James Version - Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God! Selah
- Amplified Bible - Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God [Jerusalem]. Selah.
- American Standard Version - Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. [Selah
- King James Version - Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
- World English Bible - Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Selah.
- 新標點和合本 - 神的城啊, 有榮耀的事乃指着你說的。(細拉)
- 和合本2010(上帝版-繁體) - 上帝的城啊, 有榮耀的事是指着你說的。(細拉)
- 和合本2010(神版-繁體) - 神的城啊, 有榮耀的事是指着你說的。(細拉)
- 當代譯本 - 上帝的城啊, 人們傳揚你的榮耀。(細拉)
- 聖經新譯本 - 神的城啊! 有 很多榮耀的事,都是指著你說的。 (細拉)
- 呂振中譯本 - 上帝之城啊, 有 許多 榮耀事、乃指着你而說的。 (細拉)
- 中文標準譯本 - 神的城啊, 有許多榮耀的事是指著你說的!細拉
- 現代標點和合本 - 神的城啊, 有榮耀的事乃指著你說的。(細拉)
- 文理和合譯本 - 上帝之邑歟、有榮之事、指爾而言兮、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 上帝有命、將被榮光於其邑兮、
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 天主之城歟、有言應許爾多榮耀之事、細拉、
- 吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 於穆聖邑。光榮何極。
- Nueva Versión Internacional - De ti, ciudad de Dios, se dicen cosas gloriosas: Selah
- 현대인의 성경 - 하나님의 성이여, 너를 가리켜 영광스럽다고 말한다.
- Новый Русский Перевод - Пусть достигнет Тебя молитва моя, услышь мою мольбу.
- Восточный перевод - Пусть достигнет Тебя молитва моя, услышь моё моление.
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Пусть достигнет Тебя молитва моя, услышь моё моление.
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Пусть достигнет Тебя молитва моя, услышь моё моление.
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - O toi, cité de Dieu, ce que l’on dit de toi ╵est tout chargé de gloire : Pause
- リビングバイブル - 神の都については、 なんとすばらしい語り伝えがあることでしょう。
- Nova Versão Internacional - Coisas gloriosas são ditas de ti, ó cidade de Deus! Pausa
- Hoffnung für alle - Du bist weltberühmt, du Stadt Gottes! Der Herr sagt:
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Ôi thành trì của Đức Chúa Trời vinh quang thành Chúa được đề cao!
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - นครของพระเจ้าเอ๋ย เจ้าจะเป็นที่ยกย่อง เสลาห์
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - โอ เมืองของพระเจ้าเอ๋ย เจ้าเป็นที่กล่าวขวัญอย่างน่าสรรเสริญ เซล่าห์
交叉引用
- Ezekiel 36:2 - This is what the sovereign Lord says: The enemy has spoken against you, saying “Aha!” and, “The ancient heights have become our property!”’
- Ezekiel 48:1 - “These are the names of the tribes: From the northern end beside the road of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath, as far as Hazar-enan (which is on the border of Damascus, toward the north beside Hamath), extending from the east side to the west, Dan will have one portion.
- Ezekiel 48:2 - Next to the border of Dan, from the east side to the west, Asher will have one portion.
- Ezekiel 48:3 - Next to the border of Asher from the east side to the west, Naphtali will have one portion.
- Ezekiel 48:4 - Next to the border of Naphtali from the east side to the west, Manasseh will have one portion.
- Ezekiel 48:5 - Next to the border of Manasseh from the east side to the west, Ephraim will have one portion.
- Ezekiel 48:6 - Next to the border of Ephraim from the east side to the west, Reuben will have one portion.
- Ezekiel 48:7 - Next to the border of Reuben from the east side to the west, Judah will have one portion.
- Ezekiel 48:8 - “Next to the border of Judah from the east side to the west will be the allotment you must set apart. It is to be eight and a quarter miles wide, and the same length as one of the tribal portions, from the east side to the west; the sanctuary will be in the middle of it.
- Ezekiel 48:9 - The allotment you set apart to the Lord will be eight and a quarter miles in length and three and one-third miles in width.
- Ezekiel 48:10 - These will be the allotments for the holy portion: for the priests, toward the north eight and a quarter miles in length, toward the west three and one-third miles in width, toward the east three and one-third miles in width, and toward the south eight and a quarter miles in length; the sanctuary of the Lord will be in the middle.
- Ezekiel 48:11 - This will be for the priests who are set apart from the descendants of Zadok who kept my charge and did not go astray when the people of Israel strayed off, like the Levites did.
- Ezekiel 48:12 - It will be their portion from the allotment of the land, a most holy place, next to the border of the Levites.
- Ezekiel 48:13 - “Alongside the border of the priests, the Levites will have an allotment eight and a quarter miles in length and three and one-third miles in width. The whole length will be eight and a quarter miles and the width three and one-third miles.
- Ezekiel 48:14 - They must not sell or exchange any of it; they must not transfer this choice portion of land, for it is set apart to the Lord.
- Ezekiel 48:15 - “The remainder, one and two-thirds miles in width and eight and a quarter miles in length, will be for common use by the city, for houses and for open space. The city will be in the middle of it;
- Ezekiel 48:16 - these will be its measurements: The north side will be one and one-half miles, the south side one and one-half miles, the east side one and one-half miles, and the west side one and one-half miles.
- Ezekiel 48:17 - The city will have open spaces: On the north there will be 437½ feet, on the south 437½ feet, on the east 437½ feet, and on the west 437½ feet.
- Ezekiel 48:18 - The remainder of the length alongside the holy allotment will be three and one-third miles to the east and three and one-third miles toward the west, and it will be beside the holy allotment. Its produce will be for food for the workers of the city.
- Ezekiel 48:19 - The workers of the city from all the tribes of Israel will cultivate it.
- Ezekiel 48:20 - The whole allotment will be eight and a quarter miles square, you must set apart the holy allotment with the possession of the city.
- Ezekiel 48:21 - “The rest, on both sides of the holy allotment and the property of the city, will belong to the prince. Extending from the eight and a quarter miles of the holy allotment to the east border, and westward from the eight and a quarter miles to the west border, alongside the portions, it will belong to the prince. The holy allotment and the sanctuary of the temple will be in the middle of it.
- Ezekiel 48:22 - The property of the Levites and of the city will be in the middle of that which belongs to the prince. The portion between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin will be for the prince.
- Ezekiel 48:23 - “As for the rest of the tribes: From the east side to the west side, Benjamin will have one portion.
- Ezekiel 48:24 - Next to the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon will have one portion.
- Ezekiel 48:25 - Next to the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar will have one portion.
- Ezekiel 48:26 - Next to the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun will have one portion.
- Ezekiel 48:27 - Next to the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad will have one portion.
- Ezekiel 48:28 - Next to the border of Gad, at the south side, the border will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the Stream of Egypt and on to the Great Sea.
- Ezekiel 48:29 - This is the land which you will allot to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, declares the sovereign Lord.
- Ezekiel 48:30 - “These are the exits of the city: On the north side, one and one-half miles by measure,
- Ezekiel 48:31 - the gates of the city will be named for the tribes of Israel; there will be three gates to the north: one gate for Reuben, one gate for Judah, and one gate for Levi.
- Ezekiel 48:32 - On the east side, one and one-half miles in length, there will be three gates: one gate for Joseph, one gate for Benjamin, and one gate for Dan.
- Ezekiel 48:33 - On the south side, one and one-half miles by measure, there will be three gates: one gate for Simeon, one gate for Issachar, and one gate for Zebulun.
- Ezekiel 48:34 - On the west side, one and one-half miles in length, there will be three gates: one gate for Gad, one gate for Asher, and one gate for Naphtali.
- Ezekiel 48:35 - The circumference of the city will be six miles. The name of the city from that day forward will be: ‘The Lord Is There.’”
- Ezekiel 40:1 - In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on this very day, the hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me there.
- Ezekiel 40:2 - By means of divine visions he brought me to the land of Israel and placed me on a very high mountain, and on it was a structure like a city, to the south.
- Ezekiel 40:3 - When he brought me there, I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring stick in his hand. He was standing in the gateway.
- Ezekiel 40:4 - The man said to me, “Son of man, watch closely, listen carefully, and pay attention to everything I show you, for you have been brought here so that I can show it to you. Tell the house of Israel everything you see.”
- Ezekiel 40:5 - I saw a wall all around the outside of the temple. In the man’s hand was a measuring stick 10½ feet long. He measured the thickness of the wall as 10½ feet, and its height as 10½ feet.
- Ezekiel 40:6 - Then he went to the gate facing east. He climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate as 10½ feet deep.
- Ezekiel 40:7 - The alcoves were 10½ feet long and 10½ feet wide; between the alcoves were 8¾ feet. The threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate facing inward was 10½ feet.
- Ezekiel 40:8 - Then he measured the porch of the gate facing inward as 10½ feet.
- Ezekiel 40:9 - He measured the porch of the gate as 14 feet, and its jambs as 3½ feet; the porch of the gate faced inward.
- Ezekiel 40:10 - There were three alcoves on each side of the east gate; the three had the same measurement, and the jambs on either side had the same measurement.
- Ezekiel 40:11 - He measured the width of the entrance of the gateway as 17½ feet, and the length of the gateway as 22¾ feet.
- Ezekiel 40:12 - There was a barrier in front of the alcoves, 1¾ feet on either side; the alcoves were 10½ feet on either side.
- Ezekiel 40:13 - He measured the gateway from the roof of one alcove to the roof of the other, a width of 43¾ feet from one entrance to the opposite one.
- Ezekiel 40:14 - He measured the porch at 105 feet high; the gateway went all around to the jamb of the courtyard.
- Ezekiel 40:15 - From the front of the entrance gate to the porch of the inner gate was 87½ feet.
- Ezekiel 40:16 - There were closed windows toward the alcoves and toward their jambs within the gate all around, and likewise for the porches. There were windows all around the inside, and on each jamb were decorative palm trees.
- Ezekiel 40:17 - Then he brought me to the outer court. I saw chambers there, and a pavement made for the court all around; thirty chambers faced the pavement.
- Ezekiel 40:18 - The pavement was beside the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.
- Ezekiel 40:19 - Then he measured the width from before the lower gate to the front of the exterior of the inner court as 175 feet on the east and on the north.
- Ezekiel 40:20 - He measured the length and width of the gate of the outer court which faces north.
- Ezekiel 40:21 - Its alcoves, three on each side, and its jambs and porches had the same measurement as the first gate; 87½ feet long and 43¾ feet wide.
- Ezekiel 40:22 - Its windows, its porches, and its decorative palm trees had the same measurement as the gate which faced east. Seven steps led up to it, and its porch was in front of them.
- Ezekiel 40:23 - Opposite the gate on the north and the east was a gate of the inner court; he measured the distance from gate to gate at 175 feet.
- Ezekiel 40:24 - Then he led me toward the south. I saw a gate on the south. He measured its jambs and its porches; they had the same dimensions as the others.
- Ezekiel 40:25 - There were windows all around it and its porches, like the windows of the others; 87½ feet long and 43¾ feet wide.
- Ezekiel 40:26 - There were seven steps going up to it; its porches were in front of them. It had decorative palm trees on its jambs, one on either side.
- Ezekiel 40:27 - The inner court had a gate toward the south; he measured it from gate to gate toward the south as 175 feet.
- Ezekiel 40:28 - Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate. He measured the south gate; it had the same dimensions as the others.
- Ezekiel 40:29 - Its alcoves, its jambs, and its porches had the same dimensions as the others, and there were windows all around it and its porches; its length was 87½ feet and its width 43¾ feet.
- Ezekiel 40:30 - There were porches all around, 43¾ feet long and 8¾ feet wide.
- Ezekiel 40:31 - Its porches faced the outer court, and decorative palm trees were on its jambs, and its stairway had eight steps.
- Ezekiel 40:32 - Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side. He measured the gate; it had the same dimensions as the others.
- Ezekiel 40:33 - Its alcoves, its jambs, and its porches had the same dimensions as the others, and there were windows all around it and its porches; its length was 87½ feet and its width 43¾ feet.
- Ezekiel 40:34 - Its porches faced the outer court, it had decorative palm trees on its jambs, and its stairway had eight steps.
- Ezekiel 40:35 - Then he brought me to the north gate, and he measured it; it had the same dimensions as the others –
- Ezekiel 40:36 - its alcoves, its jambs, and its porches. It had windows all around it; its length was 87½ feet and its width 43¾ feet.
- Ezekiel 40:37 - Its jambs faced the outer court, and it had decorative palm trees on its jambs, on either side, and its stairway had eight steps.
- Ezekiel 40:38 - There was a chamber with its door by the porch of the gate; there they washed the burnt offering.
- Ezekiel 40:39 - In the porch of the gate were two tables on either side on which to slaughter the burnt offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering.
- Ezekiel 40:40 - On the outside of the porch as one goes up at the entrance of the north gate were two tables, and on the other side of the porch of the gate were two tables.
- Ezekiel 40:41 - Four tables were on each side of the gate, eight tables on which the sacrifices were to be slaughtered.
- Ezekiel 40:42 - The four tables for the burnt offering were of carved stone, 32 inches long, 32 inches wide, and 21 inches high. They would put the instruments which they used to slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice on them.
- Ezekiel 40:43 - There were hooks three inches long, fastened in the house all around, and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.
- Ezekiel 40:44 - On the outside of the inner gate were chambers for the singers of the inner court, one at the side of the north gate facing south, and the other at the side of the south gate facing north.
- Ezekiel 40:45 - He said to me, “This chamber which faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple,
- Ezekiel 40:46 - and the chamber which faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the descendants of Zadok, from the descendants of Levi, who may approach the Lord to minister to him.”
- Ezekiel 40:47 - He measured the court as a square 175 feet long and 175 feet wide; the altar was in front of the temple.
- Ezekiel 40:48 - Then he brought me to the porch of the temple and measured the jambs of the porch as 8¾ feet on either side, and the width of the gate was 24½ feet and the sides were 5¼ feet on each side.
- Ezekiel 40:49 - The length of the porch was 35 feet and the width 19¼ feet; steps led up to it, and there were pillars beside the jambs on either side.
- Jeremiah 31:12 - They will come and shout for joy on Mount Zion. They will be radiant with joy over the good things the Lord provides, the grain, the fresh wine, the olive oil, the young sheep and calves he has given to them. They will be like a well-watered garden and will not grow faint or weary any more.
- Jeremiah 31:13 - The Lord says, “At that time young women will dance and be glad. Young men and old men will rejoice. I will turn their grief into gladness. I will give them comfort and joy in place of their sorrow.
- Isaiah 59:20 - “A protector comes to Zion, to those in Jacob who repent of their rebellious deeds,” says the Lord.
- Isaiah 59:21 - “As for me, this is my promise to them,” says the Lord. “My spirit, who is upon you, and my words, which I have placed in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and descendants from this time forward,” says the Lord.
- Psalms 48:11 - Mount Zion rejoices; the towns of Judah are happy, because of your acts of judgment.
- Psalms 48:12 - Walk around Zion! Encircle it! Count its towers!
- Psalms 48:13 - Consider its defenses! Walk through its fortresses, so you can tell the next generation about it!
- Jeremiah 3:14 - “Come back to me, my wayward sons,” says the Lord, “for I am your true master. If you do, I will take one of you from each town and two of you from each family group, and I will bring you back to Zion.
- Jeremiah 3:15 - I will give you leaders who will be faithful to me. They will lead you with knowledge and insight.
- Jeremiah 3:16 - In those days, your population will greatly increase in the land. At that time,” says the Lord, “people will no longer talk about having the ark that contains the Lord’s covenant with us. They will not call it to mind, remember it, or miss it. No, that will not be done any more!
- Jeremiah 3:17 - At that time the city of Jerusalem will be called the Lord’s throne. All nations will gather there in Jerusalem to honor the Lord’s name. They will no longer follow the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts.
- Isaiah 49:14 - “Zion said, ‘The Lord has abandoned me, the sovereign master has forgotten me.’
- Isaiah 49:15 - Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never forget you!
- Isaiah 49:16 - Look, I have inscribed your name on my palms; your walls are constantly before me.
- Isaiah 49:17 - Your children hurry back, while those who destroyed and devastated you depart.
- Isaiah 49:18 - Look all around you! All of them gather to you. As surely as I live,” says the Lord, “you will certainly wear all of them like jewelry; you will put them on as if you were a bride.
- Isaiah 49:19 - Yes, your land lies in ruins; it is desolate and devastated. But now you will be too small to hold your residents, and those who devoured you will be far away.
- Isaiah 49:20 - Yet the children born during your time of bereavement will say within your hearing, ‘This place is too cramped for us, make room for us so we can live here.’
- Isaiah 49:21 - Then you will think to yourself, ‘Who bore these children for me? I was bereaved and barren, dismissed and divorced. Who raised these children? Look, I was left all alone; where did these children come from?’”
- Isaiah 49:22 - This is what the sovereign Lord says: “Look I will raise my hand to the nations; I will raise my signal flag to the peoples. They will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their shoulders.
- Isaiah 49:23 - Kings will be your children’s guardians; their princesses will nurse your children. With their faces to the ground they will bow down to you and they will lick the dirt on your feet. Then you will recognize that I am the Lord; those who wait patiently for me are not put to shame.
- Isaiah 49:24 - Can spoils be taken from a warrior, or captives be rescued from a conqueror?
- Isaiah 49:25 - Indeed,” says the Lord, “captives will be taken from a warrior; spoils will be rescued from a conqueror. I will oppose your adversary and I will rescue your children.
- Isaiah 49:26 - I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will get drunk on their own blood, as if it were wine. Then all humankind will recognize that I am the Lord, your deliverer, your protector, the powerful ruler of Jacob.”
- Isaiah 61:3 - to strengthen those who mourn in Zion, by giving them a turban, instead of ashes, oil symbolizing joy, instead of mourning, a garment symbolizing praise, instead of discouragement. They will be called oaks of righteousness, trees planted by the Lord to reveal his splendor.
- Isaiah 61:4 - They will rebuild the perpetual ruins and restore the places that were desolate; they will reestablish the ruined cities, the places that have been desolate since ancient times.
- Isaiah 61:5 - “Foreigners will take care of your sheep; foreigners will work in your fields and vineyards.
- Isaiah 61:6 - You will be called, ‘the Lord’s priests, servants of our God.’ You will enjoy the wealth of nations and boast about the riches you receive from them.
- Isaiah 61:7 - Instead of shame, you will get a double portion; instead of humiliation, they will rejoice over the land they receive. Yes, they will possess a double portion in their land and experience lasting joy.
- Isaiah 61:8 - For I, the Lord, love justice and hate robbery and sin. I will repay them because of my faithfulness; I will make a permanent covenant with them.
- Isaiah 61:9 - Their descendants will be known among the nations, their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will recognize that the Lord has blessed them.”
- Isaiah 61:10 - I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; I will be overjoyed because of my God. For he clothes me in garments of deliverance; he puts on me a robe symbolizing vindication. I look like a bridegroom when he wears a turban as a priest would; I look like a bride when she puts on her jewelry.
- Isaiah 61:11 - For just as the ground produces its crops and a garden yields its produce, so the sovereign Lord will cause deliverance to grow, and give his people reason to praise him in the sight of all the nations.
- Isaiah 12:6 - Cry out and shout for joy, O citizens of Zion, for the Holy One of Israel acts mightily among you!”
- Psalms 125:1 - Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion; it cannot be upended and will endure forever.
- Psalms 125:2 - As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people, now and forevermore.
- Isaiah 54:2 - Make your tent larger, stretch your tent curtains farther out! Spare no effort, lengthen your ropes, and pound your stakes deep.
- Isaiah 54:3 - For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your children will conquer nations and will resettle desolate cities.
- Isaiah 54:4 - Don’t be afraid, for you will not be put to shame! Don’t be intimidated, for you will not be humiliated! You will forget about the shame you experienced in your youth; you will no longer remember the disgrace of your abandonment.
- Isaiah 54:5 - For your husband is the one who made you – the Lord who commands armies is his name. He is your protector, the Holy One of Israel. He is called “God of the entire earth.”
- Isaiah 54:6 - “Indeed, the Lord will call you back like a wife who has been abandoned and suffers from depression, like a young wife when she has been rejected,” says your God.
- Isaiah 54:7 - “For a short time I abandoned you, but with great compassion I will gather you.
- Isaiah 54:8 - In a burst of anger I rejected you momentarily, but with lasting devotion I will have compassion on you,” says your protector, the Lord.
- Isaiah 54:9 - “As far as I am concerned, this is like in Noah’s time, when I vowed that the waters of Noah’s flood would never again cover the earth. In the same way I have vowed that I will not be angry at you or shout at you.
- Isaiah 54:10 - Even if the mountains are removed and the hills displaced, my devotion will not be removed from you, nor will my covenant of friendship be displaced,” says the Lord, the one who has compassion on you.
- Ezekiel 37:27 - My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.
- Ezekiel 37:28 - Then, when my sanctuary is among them forever, the nations will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel.’”
- Revelation 14:1 - Then I looked, and here was the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him were one hundred and forty-four thousand, who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.
- Revelation 21:10 - So he took me away in the Spirit to a huge, majestic mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.
- Revelation 21:11 - The city possesses the glory of God; its brilliance is like a precious jewel, like a stone of crystal-clear jasper.
- Revelation 21:12 - It has a massive, high wall with twelve gates, with twelve angels at the gates, and the names of the twelve tribes of the nation of Israel are written on the gates.
- Revelation 21:13 - There are three gates on the east side, three gates on the north side, three gates on the south side and three gates on the west side.
- Revelation 21:14 - The wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them are the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
- Revelation 21:15 - The angel who spoke to me had a golden measuring rod with which to measure the city and its foundation stones and wall.
- Revelation 21:16 - Now the city is laid out as a square, its length and width the same. He measured the city with the measuring rod at fourteen hundred miles (its length and width and height are equal).
- Revelation 21:17 - He also measured its wall, one hundred forty-four cubits according to human measurement, which is also the angel’s.
- Revelation 21:18 - The city’s wall is made of jasper and the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.
- Revelation 21:19 - The foundations of the city’s wall are decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation is jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald,
- Revelation 21:20 - the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.
- Revelation 21:21 - And the twelve gates are twelve pearls – each one of the gates is made from just one pearl! The main street of the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.
- Revelation 21:22 - Now I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God – the All-Powerful – and the Lamb are its temple.
- Revelation 21:23 - The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God lights it up, and its lamp is the Lamb.
- Revelation 21:24 - The nations will walk by its light and the kings of the earth will bring their grandeur into it.
- Revelation 21:25 - Its gates will never be closed during the day (and there will be no night there).
- Revelation 21:26 - They will bring the grandeur and the wealth of the nations into it,
- Revelation 21:27 - but nothing ritually unclean will ever enter into it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or practices falsehood, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
- Psalms 48:2 - It is lofty and pleasing to look at, a source of joy to the whole earth. Mount Zion resembles the peaks of Zaphon; it is the city of the great king.
- Psalms 48:3 - God is in its fortresses; he reveals himself as its defender.
- Psalms 46:4 - The river’s channels bring joy to the city of God, the special, holy dwelling place of the sovereign One.
- Hebrews 12:22 - But you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly
- Hebrews 12:23 - and congregation of the firstborn, who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous, who have been made perfect,
- Ezekiel 36:11 - I will increase the number of people and animals on you; they will increase and be fruitful. I will cause you to be inhabited as in ancient times, and will do more good for you than at the beginning of your history. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
- Ezekiel 36:12 - I will lead people, my people Israel, across you; they will possess you and you will become their inheritance. No longer will you bereave them of their children.
- Ezekiel 36:13 - “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Because they are saying to you, “You are a devourer of men, and bereave your nation of children,”
- Ezekiel 36:14 - therefore you will no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the sovereign Lord.
- Ezekiel 36:15 - I will no longer subject you to the nations’ insults; no longer will you bear the shame of the peoples, and no longer will you bereave your nation, declares the sovereign Lord.’”
- Ezekiel 36:16 - The word of the Lord came to me:
- Ezekiel 36:17 - “Son of man, when the house of Israel was living on their own land, they defiled it by their behavior and their deeds. In my sight their behavior was like the uncleanness of a woman having her monthly period.
- Ezekiel 36:18 - So I poured my anger on them because of the blood they shed on the land and because of the idols with which they defiled it.
- Ezekiel 36:19 - I scattered them among the nations; they were dispersed throughout foreign countries. In accordance with their behavior and their deeds I judged them.
- Ezekiel 36:20 - But when they arrived in the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name. It was said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, yet they have departed from his land.’
- Ezekiel 36:21 - I was concerned for my holy reputation which the house of Israel profaned among the nations where they went.
- Ezekiel 36:22 - “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: It is not for your sake that I am about to act, O house of Israel, but for the sake of my holy reputation which you profaned among the nations where you went.
- Ezekiel 36:23 - I will magnify my great name that has been profaned among the nations, that you have profaned among them. The nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the sovereign Lord, when I magnify myself among you in their sight.
- Ezekiel 36:24 - “‘I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries; then I will bring you to your land.
- Ezekiel 36:25 - I will sprinkle you with pure water and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols.
- Ezekiel 36:26 - I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you a heart of flesh.
- Ezekiel 36:27 - I will put my Spirit within you; I will take the initiative and you will obey my statutes and carefully observe my regulations.
- Ezekiel 36:28 - Then you will live in the land I gave to your fathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God.
- Ezekiel 36:29 - I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and multiply it; I will not bring a famine on you.
- Ezekiel 36:30 - I will multiply the fruit of the trees and the produce of the fields, so that you will never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.
- Ezekiel 36:31 - Then you will remember your evil behavior and your deeds which were not good; you will loathe yourselves on account of your sins and your abominable deeds.
- Ezekiel 36:32 - Understand that it is not for your sake I am about to act, declares the sovereign Lord. Be ashamed and embarrassed by your behavior, O house of Israel.
- Ezekiel 36:33 - “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: In the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will populate the cities and the ruins will be rebuilt.
- Ezekiel 36:34 - The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.
- Ezekiel 36:35 - They will say, “This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden; the ruined, desolate, and destroyed cities are now fortified and inhabited.”
- Ezekiel 36:36 - Then the nations which remain around you will know that I, the Lord, have rebuilt the ruins and replanted what was desolate. I, the Lord, have spoken – and I will do it!’
- Ezekiel 36:37 - “This is what the sovereign Lord says: I will allow the house of Israel to ask me to do this for them: I will multiply their people like sheep.
- Ezekiel 36:38 - Like the sheep for offerings, like the sheep of Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so will the ruined cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”