Isaiah 1:21

Purification Of Jerusalem

²⁰ Refuse and rebel and swords will devour you. Jehovah 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 is not pure. Your beer is watered down.

Justice and Righteousness

With God

2 Samuel 8:15

So David ruled all Israel. He did what was fair and right for all his people.

2 Chronicles 19:9

He told them: Faithfully serve Jehovah!

Nehemiah 11:1

The rulers of the people lived in Jerusalem. One out of every ten people was selected by chance to live in Jerusalem, the holy town. The other nine were to go to the other towns.

Psalm 46:4

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

Psalm 48:1

([Sons of Korah]) Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, his sacred mountain.

Psalm 48:8

In the city of Jehovah of Hosts we have seen as we have heard. God will establish the city of God forever.

Isaiah 5:7

I am Jehovah of Hosts (All Powerful)! Israel is the vineyard, and Judah is the garden I tended with care. I had hoped for honesty and for justice, but dishonesty and cries for mercy were all I found.

Isaiah 48:2

Yet you are proud to say that you are citizens of the holy city and that you depend on Israel's God, whose name is Jehovah of Hosts.

Isaiah 57:3-9

But come here, you sons of the witch, you offspring of the adulterer and the prostitute!

Jeremiah 2:20-21

Long ago you broke off your yoke, tore off your bonds, and said that you would not be a slave. You lay down and acted like a prostitute on every high hill and under every large tree.

Jeremiah 3:1

It is said: If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, her first husband should not go back to her again. The land would become completely polluted. You have behaved like a prostitute who has many lovers. Now you want to come back to me! Says Jehovah.

Lamentations 1:8-9

Great is the sin of Jerusalem! For this cause she has become an unclean thing. Those who gave her honor are looking down on her. They see her shame. Now truly, sighing out grief, she turns back.

Ezekiel 16:1-63

The word of Jehovah came to me:

Ezekiel 22:1-23

Jehovah continued to speak his word to me:

Hosea 11:12

Ephraim surrounds me with lies, the house of Israel with deceit. Yet Judah is unruly against God, even against the Holy One who is faithful.

Micah 3:2-3

You hate good and love evil! You rip off their skin and their flesh from off their bones!

Zephaniah 3:1-3

Woe to the oppressive city for she is rebellious and polluted (defiled)!

Zechariah 8:3

Jehovah of Hosts said: I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Jerusalem will be called the city of truth and the mountain of Jehovah of Hosts, the holy mountain.

Luke 13:34

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets! You stone those sent to you. How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her own brood under her wings. But you would not have it!

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? They killed those who announced in advance the coming of the righteous one whom you have betrayed and murdered.

Hebrews 12:22

You have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads (thousands of thousands) of angels,

Revelation 11:2

Do not measure the court outside the temple for it is given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.

Revelation 11:8

Their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was impaled.