Psalm 87:4

Zion, The City Of God

³ People say wonderful things about you, O city of God. (Selah) ⁴ I mention Rahab and Babylon to my followers. Here are Philistia and Tyre, along with Ethiopia. It is said of them, "This one was born there." ⁵ But it is said of Zion's residents, "Each one of these was born in her, and the sovereign One makes her secure."

City of God

Babel

Babylon

Cush

Egypt

Ethiopia

Ethiopians

Philistia

Philistines

Rahab

Tyre

Psalm 45:12

Rich people from Tyre will seek your favor by bringing a gift.

Psalm 68:31

They come with red cloth from Egypt, Ethiopia voluntarily offers tribute to God.

Isaiah 19:23-25

At that time there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will visit Egypt, and the Egyptians will visit Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together.

Job 9:13

God does not restrain his anger; under him the helpers of Rahab lie crushed.

Psalm 89:10

You crushed the Proud One and killed it; with your strong arm you scattered your enemies.

1 Samuel 17:8

Goliath stood and called to Israel's troops, "Why do you come out to prepare for battle? Am I not the Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose for yourselves a man so he may come down to me!

2 Samuel 21:16-22

Now Ishbi-Benob, one of the descendants of Rapha, had a spear that weighed three hundred bronze shekels, and he was armed with a new weapon. He had said that he would kill David.

1 Kings 10:1-29

When the queen of Sheba heard about Solomon, she came to challenge him with difficult questions.

2 Kings 20:17-18

Look, a time is coming when everything in your palace and the things your ancestors have accumulated to this day will be carried away to Babylon; nothing will be left,' says the Lord.

Psalm 137:1

By the rivers of Babylon we sit down and weep when we remember Zion.

Psalm 137:8-9

O daughter Babylon, soon to be devastated! How blessed will be the one who repays you for what you dished out to us!

Isaiah 13:1-22

This is a message about Babylon that God revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz:

Isaiah 14:4-6

you will taunt the king of Babylon with these words: "Look how the oppressor has met his end! Hostility has ceased!

Isaiah 19:11

The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools; Pharaoh's wise advisers give stupid advice. How dare you say to Pharaoh, "I am one of the sages, one well-versed in the writings of the ancient kings?"

Isaiah 23:1-18

Here is a message about Tyre: Wail, you large ships, for the port is too devastated to enter! From the land of Cyprus this news is announced to them.

Isaiah 51:9

Wake up! Wake up! Clothe yourself with strength, O arm of the Lord! Wake up as in former times, as in antiquity! Did you not smash the Proud One? Did you not wound the sea monster?

Jeremiah 25:9

So I, the Lord, affirm that I will send for all the peoples of the north and my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and all the nations that surround it. I will utterly destroy this land, its inhabitants, and all the nations that surround it and make them everlasting ruins. I will make them objects of horror and hissing scorn.

Jeremiah 50:1-46

The Lord spoke concerning Babylon and the land of Babylonia through the prophet Jeremiah.

Ezekiel 27:1-28

The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 28:2

"Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: "'Your heart is proud and you said, "I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas" -- yet you are a man and not a god, though you think you are godlike.

Daniel 2:47-48

The king replied to Daniel, "Certainly your God is a God of gods and Lord of kings and revealer of mysteries, for you were able to reveal this mystery!"

Daniel 4:30

The king uttered these words: "Is this not the great Babylon that I have built for a royal residence by my own mighty strength and for my majestic honor?"

Acts 8:27

So he got up and went. There he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to worship,

Revelation 17:5

On her forehead was written a name, a mystery: "Babylon the Great, the Mother of prostitutes and of the detestable things of the earth."

Revelation 18:2

He shouted with a powerful voice: "Fallen, fallen, is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detested beast.