“I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go into the house of The LORD.”  Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem!Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together, where the tribes go up, the tribes of The LORD, to the Testimony of Israel, to give thanks to the name of The LORD.  For thrones are set there for judgment, the thrones of the house of David.  Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May they prosper who love you.  Peace be within your walls, prosperity within your palaces.”  For the sake of my brethren and companions, I will now say, “Peace be within you.”  Because of the house of The LORD our God I will seek your good.”   Psalm 122:6-9 NKJV.

“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.””   Psalm 132:13-14 NKJV.

“Great is The LORD, and greatly to be praised In the city of our God, In His holy mountain. Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. God is in her palaces; He is known as her refuge.”   Psalm 48:1-3 NKJV.

“The LORD does build up Jerusalem: He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.” Psalm 147:2 NKJV.

“Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, and gather you from the west;”   Isaiah 43:5 NKJV.

“I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says The LORD, “And I will heal him.”   Isaiah 57:19 NKJV.

“I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day or night.  You who make mention of The LORD, do not keep silent, and give Him no rest till He establishes and till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.“   Isaiah 62:6-7 NKJV.

“The LORD is good to those who hope is in Him, to the one who seeks Him.”   Lamentations 3:25 NKJV.

“But I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all countries where I have driven them, and bring them back to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.”   Jeremiah 23:3 NKJV.

“For behold, the days are coming,’ says The LORD, ‘that I will bring back from captivity My people Israel and Judah,’ says The LORD. ‘And I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.’”   Jeremiah 30:3 NKJV.

Ezekiel 36 NKJV

“Then say to them, ‘Thus says The LORD God: “Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land;… Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them, and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary in their midst forevermore.  My tabernacle also shall be with them; indeed I will be their God, and they shall be My people.  The nations also will know that I, The LORD, sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.” ’ ”   Ezekiel 37:21; 26-28 NKJV.

“For The LORD will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of The LORD; Joy and gladness will be found in it. Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.”   Isaiah 51:3 NKJV.