Quotes About City

Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the kingís garden. They headed toward the Arabah,

Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest people and those who remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the craftsmen.

Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as seven trusted royal advisers. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.

How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.

My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.

My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.

The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.

When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For I will unleash a sword behind them.

The sword is outside; plague and famine are within. Those in the country will die by the sword, and those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague.

Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.

Then I heard Him call out in a loud voice, saying, “Draw near, O executioners of the city, each with a weapon of destruction in hand.”

And as I listened, He said to the others, “Follow him through the city and start killing; do not show pity or spare anyone!

Then He told them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth!” So they went out and began killing throughout the city.

And the LORD said to the man clothed in linen, “Go inside the wheelwork beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And as I watched, he went in.

And the LORD said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked counsel in this city.

They are saying, ëIs not the time near to build houses? The city is the cooking pot, and we are the meat.í

You have multiplied those you killed in this city and filled its streets with the dead.

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: The slain you have laid within this city are the meat, and the city is the pot; but I will remove you from it.

I will bring you out of the city and deliver you into the hands of foreigners, and I will execute judgments against you.

The city will not be a pot for you, nor will you be the meat within it. I will judge you even to the borders of Israel.

And the glory of the LORD rose up from within the city and stood over the mountain east of the city.

He plucked off its topmost shoot, carried it to the land of merchants, and planted it in a city of traders.

“As for you, son of man, will you judge her? Will you pass judgment on the city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her abominations