Quotes About Cities

I will multiply the people upon you—the house of Israel in its entirety. The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.

Like the numerous flocks for sacrifices at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so the ruined cities will be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.

A sword will flash through their cities; it will destroy the bars of their gates and consume them in their own plans.

Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?

So I will send fire upon Teman to consume the citadels of Bozrah.”

Proclaim to the citadels of Ashdod and to the citadels of Egypt: “Assemble on the mountains of Samaria; see the great unrest in the city and the acts of oppression in her midst.”

“I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.

People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

And the exiles of this host of the Israelites will possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath; and the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the cities of the Negev.

I will remove the cities of your land and tear down all your strongholds.

a day of horn blast and battle cry against the fortified cities, and against the high corner towers.

For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon left in ruins. Ashdod will be driven out at noon, and Ekron will be uprooted.

“I have cut off the nations; their corner towers are destroyed. I have made their streets deserted with no one to pass through. Their cities are laid waste, with no man, no inhabitant.

Proclaim further that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ëMy cities will again overflow with prosperity; the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.í”

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Peoples will yet come—the residents of many cities—

and also against Hamath, which borders it, as well as Tyre and Sidon, though they are very shrewd.

Ashkelon will see and fear; Gaza will writhe in agony, as will Ekron, for her hope will wither. There will cease to be a king in Gaza, and Ashkelon will be uninhabited.

After Jesus had finished instructing His twelve disciples, He went on from there to teach and preach in their cities.

Then Jesus began to denounce the cities in which most of His miracles had been performed, because they did not repent.

But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.

But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.

His master replied, ëWell done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, you shall have authority over ten cities.í