Isaiah 1:21

Purification Of Jerusalem

²⁰ but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be eaten by the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken." ²¹ How the faithful city has become a harlot,
She who was full of justice!
Righteousness once lodged in her,
But now murderers.
²² Your silver has become dross, your best wine mixed with water.

Justice and Righteousness

With God

2 Samuel 8:15

So David reigned over all Israel. And David administered justice and equity to all his people.

2 Chronicles 19:9

And he charged them: "Thus you shall do in the fear of the LORD, in faithfulness, and with your whole heart:

Nehemiah 11:1

Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem. And the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in Jerusalem the holy city, while nine out of ten remained in the other towns.

Psalm 46:4

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High.

Psalm 48:1

Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised in the city of our God! His holy mountain,

Psalm 48:8

As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God, which God will establish forever. Selah

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!

Isaiah 48:2

For they call themselves after the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; the LORD of hosts is his name.

Isaiah 57:3-9

But you, draw near, sons of the sorceress, offspring of the adulterer and the loose woman.

Jeremiah 2:20-21

"For long ago I broke your yoke and burst your bonds; but you said, 'I will not serve.' Yes, on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down like a whore.

Jeremiah 3:1

"If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the LORD.

Lamentations 1:8-9

Jerusalem sinned grievously; therefore she became filthy; all who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns her face away.

Ezekiel 16:1-63

Again the word of the LORD came to me:

Ezekiel 22:1-23

And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Hosea 11:12

Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.

Micah 3:2-3

you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin from off my people and their flesh from off their bones,

Zephaniah 3:1-3

Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, the oppressing city!

Zechariah 8:3

Thus says the LORD: I have returned to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the LORD of hosts, the holy mountain.

Luke 13:34

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,

Hebrews 12:22

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,

Revelation 11:2

but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.

Revelation 11:8

and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.