Quotes About City

And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.

See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!

I will restore your judges as at first, and your counselors as at the beginning. After that you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.”

Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! Melt away, all you Philistines! For a cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there are no stragglers in its ranks.

This is the burden against Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins.

O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.

You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the City of David. You collected water from the lower pool.

Is this your jubilant city, whose origin is from antiquity, whose feet have taken her to settle far away?

“Take up your harp, stroll through the city, O forgotten harlot. Make sweet melody, sing many a song, so you will be remembered.”

The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.

The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.

Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.

In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation is established as its walls and ramparts.

For He has humbled those who dwell on high; He lays the lofty city low. He brings it down to the ground; He casts it into the dust.

For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.

Woe to you, O Ariel, the city of Ariel where David camped! Year upon year let your festivals recur.

and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.

For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—

But hail will level the forest, and the city will sink to the depths.

So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ëHe will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it.

He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city,í declares the LORD.

ëI will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.í”

And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.

I will raise up Cyrus in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He will rebuild My city and set My exiles free, but not for payment or reward, says the LORD of Hosts.”