Quotes about Cities
The young men of On and Pi-beseth will fall by the sword, and those cities will go into captivity.
- Ezekiel 30:17
I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
- Ezekiel 35:4
I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
- Ezekiel 35:9
therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become a spoil and a mockery to the rest of the nations around you.
- Ezekiel 36:4
I will multiply the people upon you—the house of Israel in its entirety. The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.
- Ezekiel 36:10
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.”
- Ezekiel 36:38
Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out, kindle fires, and burn up the weapons—the bucklers and shields, the bows and arrows, the clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel.
- Ezekiel 39:9
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.
- Hosea 8:14
A sword will flash through their cities; it will destroy the bars of their gates and consume them in their own plans.
- Hosea 11:6
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”?
- Hosea 13:10
I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
- Amos 9:14
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.
- Obadiah 1:20