Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'zion' occurs 425 times in the standard works.

159 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'zion' in the standard works and contain 37.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 68 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 97:18-21 (6 in 4 verses)

D&C 72:13-18 (6 in 6 verses)

Moses 7:18-23 (6 in 6 verses)

D&C 45:67-71 (5 in 5 verses)

D&C 97:1-5 (5 in 5 verses)

D&C 107:74 (4 in 1 verse)

D&C 104:47-48 (4 in 2 verses)

Moses 7:68-69 (4 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 14:3-5 (4 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 26:29-31 (4 in 3 verses)

D&C 82:12-14 (4 in 3 verses)

D&C 113:7-9 (4 in 3 verses)

D&C 119:5-7 (4 in 3 verses)

D&C 68:29-32 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 84:99-100 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 103:34-35 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 107:36-37 (3 in 2 verses)

Isa. 4:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 63:39-41 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 72:24-26 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 90:30-32 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 90:32-34 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 101:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 27:3 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 28:21 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 64:38 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 84:104 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 100:13 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 111:2 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 133:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 48:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 3:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 52:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 52:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Joel 3:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Micah 4:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Micah 4:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Zech. 8:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 6:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 8:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 13:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 12:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 20:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 21:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 58:49-50 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 63:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 64:34-35 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 68:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 69:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 69:8-70:1 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 93:53-94:1 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 101:74-75 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 103:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 105:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 105:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 119:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 133:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 153 8 161
Num. 0 2 2
Deut. 0 1 1
2 Sam. 1 0 1
1 Kgs. 1 3 4
2 Kgs. 2 0 2
1 Chr. 1 0 1
2 Chr. 1 2 3
Ps. 37 0 37
Song. 1 0 1
Isa. 47 0 47
Jer. 17 0 17
Lam. 15 0 15
Joel 7 0 7
Amos 2 0 2
Obad. 2 0 2
Micah 9 0 9
Zeph. 2 0 2
Zech. 8 0 8
NT 0 0 0
BM 45 0 45
DC 210 0 210
PGP 17 0 17
TOTAL 425 8 433

Lam. 1:4
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

Lam. 1:6
And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.

Lam. 1:17
Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the Lord hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.

Lam. 2:1
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!

Lam. 2:4
He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

Lam. 2:6
And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

Lam. 2:8
The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

Lam. 2:10
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

Lam. 2:13
What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

Lam. 2:18
Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

Lam. 4:2
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

Lam. 4:11
The Lord hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.

Lam. 4:22
The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.

Lam. 5:11
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

Lam. 5:18
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.