Going Up to Zion

 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise you, and let us go up to Zion to the LORD our God.
 For this says the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish you, praise you, and say, O LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.

bed of green grass in the woods with green trees and the sun beams shinning through the tree branches

 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travail with child together: a great company shall return here.

 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

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