They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
Parallel translations
- WEB A Song of Ascents. Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.
- BSB A song of ascents. Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion. It cannot be moved; it abides forever.
- NKJV Those who trust in the Lord Are like Mount Zion, Which cannot be moved, but abides forever.
- NASB Those who trust in the Lord Are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but remains forever.
- NLT Those who trust in the Lord are as secure as Mount Zion; they will not be defeated but will endure forever.
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Quick answer
Those who trust in Yahweh are as secure and immovable as Mount Zion. It matters because faith, not feelings, grounds the believer's lasting stability.
Overview
This Song of Ascents, sung by pilgrims approaching Jerusalem, likens the trusting believer to Mount Zion, which endures forever. The point is not that life is free of trouble but that those who lean on God share His permanence. In Christ this security is sealed, for nothing can separate His people from the love of God.
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Cross-references · 33
- Jer 17:7–8Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
- Ps 62:2He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
- Prov 3:5–6Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
- Ps 118:8–9It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
- Ps 120:1In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
- Zech 1:17Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
- Ps 34:22The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.
- Ps 25:2O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.
- 1 Chr 5:20And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.
- Ps 121:1I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
- Ps 27:1The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
- Ps 62:6He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
- Eph 1:12–13That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
- Isa 12:6Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
- Ps 132:13–14For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.
- Mic 4:2And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
- Ps 122:1I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
- Isa 51:16And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.
- Rev 14:1And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
- Ps 123:1Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
- Ps 124:1If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;
- Zech 1:14So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
- Obad 1:21And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD’s.
- Ps 25:8Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
- Isa 51:8For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
- Isa 14:32What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
- Matt 16:16–18And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
- Isa 52:7–8How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
- 1 Pet 1:21Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
- Isa 52:1Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
- Ps 46:5God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
- Ps 147:11The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
- Isa 51:11Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
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