Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!

Bible References

General references

Jeremiah 33:9
This city will bear on My behalf a name of joy, praise, and glory before all the nations of the earth, who will hear of all the good I will do for them. They will tremble with awe because of all the good and all the peace I will bring about for them.
Jeremiah 48:2
There is no longer praise for Moab;
they plan harm against her in Heshbon:
Come, let’s cut her off from nationhood.
Also, Madmen, you will be silenced;
the sword will pursue you.
Jeremiah 51:41
How Sheshach has been captured,
the praise of the whole earth seized.
What a horror Babylon has become
among the nations!
Psalm 37:35
I have seen a wicked, violent man
well-rooted like a flourishing native tree.
Isaiah 1:26
I will restore your judges to what they once were,
and your advisers to their former state.
Afterward you will be called the Righteous City,
a Faithful City.”
Isaiah 14:4
you will sing this song of contempt about the king of Babylon and say:

How the oppressor has quieted down,
and how the raging has become quiet!
Daniel 4:30
the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great that I have built by my vast power to be a royal residence and to display my majestic glory?”
Revelation 18:10
They will stand far off in fear of her torment, saying:

Woe, woe, the great city,
Babylon, the mighty city!
For in a single hour
your judgment has come.

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