Quotes about Cities
Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste; her cities will become desolate, with no one to dwell in them.
- Jeremiah 48:9
Concerning the Ammonites, this is what the LORD says: “Has Israel no sons? Is he without heir? Why then has Milcom taken possession of Gad? Why have his people settled in their cities?
- Jeremiah 49:1
For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”
- Jeremiah 49:13
The arrogant one will stumble and fall with no one to pick him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities to consume all those around him.”
- Jeremiah 50:32
Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.
- Jeremiah 51:43
Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.
- Lamentations 2:2
Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
- Lamentations 5:11
The inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
- Ezekiel 12:20
He broke down their strongholds and devastated their cities. The land and everything in it shuddered at the sound of his roaring.
- Ezekiel 19:7
therefore I will indeed expose the flank of Moab beginning with its frontier cities—Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim—the glory of the land.
- Ezekiel 25:9
I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolate lands, and her cities will lie desolate for forty years among the ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.
- Ezekiel 29:12
They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will lie among ruined cities.
- Ezekiel 30:7