Isaiah 49:21
Then you will think to yourself, 'Who bore these children for me? I was bereaved and barren, dismissed and divorced. Who raised these children? Look, I was left all alone; where did these children come from?'"
Isaiah 1:8
Daughter Zion is left isolated, like a hut in a vineyard, or a shelter in a cucumber field; she is a besieged city.
Isaiah 3:26
Her gates will mourn and lament; deprived of her people, she will sit on the ground.
Isaiah 5:13
Therefore my people will be deported because of their lack of understanding. Their leaders will have nothing to eat, their masses will have nothing to drink.
Isaiah 51:17-20
Wake up! Wake up! Get up, O Jerusalem! You drank from the cup the Lord passed to you, which was full of his anger! You drained dry the goblet full of intoxicating wine.
Isaiah 52:2
Shake off the dirt! Get up, captive Jerusalem! Take off the iron chains around your neck, O captive daughter Zion!
Isaiah 54:3-8
For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your children will conquer nations and will resettle desolate cities.
Isaiah 60:15
You were once abandoned and despised, with no one passing through, but I will make you a permanent source of pride and joy to coming generations.
Isaiah 62:4
You will no longer be called, "Abandoned," and your land will no longer be called "Desolate." Indeed, you will be called "My Delight is in Her," and your land "Married." For the Lord will take delight in you, and your land will be married to him.
Isaiah 64:10
Your chosen cities have become a desert; Zion has become a desert, Jerusalem is a desolate ruin.
Jeremiah 31:15-17
The Lord says, "A sound is heard in Ramah, a sound of crying in bitter grief. It is the sound of Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because her children are gone."
Lamentations 1:1-3
(Alef)Alas! The city once full of people now sits all alone! The prominent lady among the nations has become a widow! The princess who once ruled the provinces has become a forced laborer!
Matthew 24:29-30
"Immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken.
Luke 21:24
They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led away as captives among all nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
Romans 11:11-17
I ask then, they did not stumble into an irrevocable fall, did they? Absolutely not! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel jealous.
Romans 11:24
For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?
Romans 11:26-31
And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come out of Zion; he will remove ungodliness from Jacob.
Galatians 3:29
And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's descendants, heirs according to the promise.
Galatians 4:26-29
But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.