⁸ As we have heard,
    so we have seen
in the city of the Lord Almighty,
    in the city of our God:
God makes her secure
    forever.^[a](A)

²⁰ Look on Zion,^(A) the city of our festivals;
    your eyes will see Jerusalem,
    a peaceful abode,^(B) a tent^(C) that will not be moved;^(D)
its stakes will never be pulled up,
    nor any of its ropes broken.

⁴ There is a river^(A) whose streams^(B) make glad the city of God,^(C)
    the holy place where the Most High^(D) dwells.^(E)

² Beautiful^(A) in its loftiness,
    the joy of the whole earth,
like the heights of Zaphon^[a](B) is Mount Zion,^(C)
    the city of the Great King.^(D)

¹⁵ All who pass your way
    clap their hands at you;^(A)
they scoff^(B) and shake their heads^(C)
    at Daughter Jerusalem:^(D)
“Is this the city that was called
    the perfection of beauty,^(E)
    the joy of the whole earth?”^(F)