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  2. List of songs about Jerusalem - Wikipedia

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    There are many songs about Jerusalem from various time periods, especially nationalistically-themed songs from the time of the Six-Day War, when East Jerusalem passed from Jordanian control to Israeli. Additionally many Biblical Psalms, styled as songs, were written specifically about Jerusalem. Jewish liturgy and hymns are rife with references ...

  3. Category:Songs about Jerusalem - Wikipedia

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    Songs about Jerusalem. Pages in category "Songs about Jerusalem" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent ...

  4. Rivers of Babylon - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of the weeping by the rivers of Babylon from Chludov Psalter (9th century). The song is based on the Biblical Psalm 137:1–4, a hymn expressing the lamentations of the Jewish people in exile following the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem in 586 BC: [1] Previously the Kingdom of Israel, after being united under Kings David and Solomon, had been split in two, with the Kingdom of ...

  5. Jerusalem of Gold - Wikipedia

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    Jerusalem of Gold performed by Ofra Haza. The melody of Yerushalayim Shel Zahav is largely based on the Basque lullaby, Pello Joxepe. [1] [2] Naomi Shemer first heard the melody during a visit by Paco Ibáñez to Israel in 1962, where he performed the song to a group that included Shemer [2] and Nehama Hendel.

  6. Zionides - Wikipedia

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    The oldest song of Zion in Jewish literature was written around the fifth century BCE, and is a lamentation that the enemy compels Israel to live on foreign soil; this is the celebrated Psalm 137:1-3. A similar Zionide of the same period is Psalm 86; in it the poet, full of hope, sings of the day when the Captivity shall be over and the ...

  7. The Holy City (song) - Wikipedia

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    The three verses of the song describe in turn, a crowd cheering Jesus Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, Jesus's crucifixion on Good Friday, and the eventual "New Jerusalem" (Zion) of universal peace and brotherhood, which is foretold in Isaiah 2:4 [2] and Isaiah 11:6-9. [3]

  8. Belshazzar's Feast (Walton) - Wikipedia

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    Required of us a song. Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song In a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth. Yea, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. By the waters of Babylon There we sat down ...

  9. Category:Songs about Israel - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Songs about Israel" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. A Walk to Caesarea; B.