Quotes About Cities

the men of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, 721;

They captured fortified cities and fertile land and took houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled; they grew fat and delighted in Your great goodness.

in Jeshua, Moladah, and Beth-pelet;

in En-rimmon, Zorah, Jarmuth,

in Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,

Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,

Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,

with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,

The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished.

Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.

Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,

“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

and as I have done to Samaria and its idols, will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?”

who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”

Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.

The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.

In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken thickets and summits, abandoned to the Israelites and to utter desolation.

In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of Hosts. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.

Therefore, a strong people will honor You. The cities of ruthless nations will revere You.

In the fourteenth year of Hezekiahís reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.

Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.

Let the desert and its cities raise their voices; let the villages of Kedar cry aloud. Let the people of Sela sing for joy; let them cry out from the mountaintops.

For you will spread out to the right and left; your descendants will dispossess the nations and inhabit the desolate cities.

They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.