pray for the peace of jerusalem
Jerusalem is mentioned 881 times in the Bible! And Israel an astounding 2575 times! Here are powerful scriptures about Jerusalem and Israel.
Pray for Peace
Psalm 122:6 “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper
that love you.”
Powerful Proclamations
Deut. 6:4 “You shall love the Lord your God!”
Psalm 147:4 “Praise YHWH O Jerusalem, praise your God O Zion”
Isaiah 52:1 “Awake, awake! Put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city!”
Zeph. 3:16,17 “Do not fear O Zion. Do not let your hands hang limp. The Lord your God is with you. He is mighty to save.”
Promise Land Promises
Isaiah 31:5 “Like birds flying about so YHWH of hosts will defend Jerusalem.”
Psalm 69:35,36 “For god will save Zion and build the cities of Judah that they may dwell there and possess it. Also the descendents of his servants shall inherit it and those who love His name shall dwell in it.”
Isaiah 14:1 “For YHWH will have mercy on Jacob and will still choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The strangers will be joined with them and they will cling to the house of Jacob.”
Deut. 11:12 “A land for which YHWH your God cares, the eyes of YHWH your God are on it from the beginning of the year until the very end of the year.”
God’s Perspective
Zech. 12:9 “It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.”
Zech. 8:2 “I am very jealous for Zion, I am buring with jealousy for her.”
Isaiah 49:14-16 “But Zion has said, ‘the Lord has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten me.’ Can a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, yet I will not forget you.”
2 Chron. 6:6 “Yet I have chosen Jerusalem, that My name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.”
Psalm 132:13-15 “For the lord has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling place: ‘This is My resting place forever; here I will dwell for I have desired it. I will aboundantly bless her provision; I will satisfy her poor with bread.’”