Quotes about City
I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city: “Have you seen the one I love?”
- Song of Solomon 3:3
I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city. They beat me and bruised me; they took away my cloak, those guardians of the walls.
- Song of Solomon 5:7
And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.
- Isaiah 1:8
See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!
- Isaiah 1:21
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.”
- Isaiah 1:26
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.
- Isaiah 14:31
This is the burden against Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins.
- Isaiah 17:1
O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.
- Isaiah 22:2
You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the City of David. You collected water from the lower pool.
- Isaiah 22:9
You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore them down to strengthen the wall.
- Isaiah 22:10
Is this your jubilant city, whose origin is from antiquity, whose feet have taken her to settle far away?
- Isaiah 23:7
“Take up your harp, stroll through the city, O forgotten harlot. Make sweet melody, sing many a song, so you will be remembered.”
- Isaiah 23:16