Thematic Bible: Called the holy city


Thematic Bible



Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there will never again come into you the unclean and those without circumcision.

Then the Evil One took him to the holy town; and he put him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him,

And the rulers of the people were living in Jerusalem: the rest of the people made selection, by the decision of chance, of one out of every ten to be living in Jerusalem, the holy town; the other nine to go to the other towns.

And I will give you judges again as at the first, and wise guides as in the past; then you will be named, The Town of Righteousness, the true town.

For they say that they are of the holy town, and put their faith in the God of Israel: the Lord of armies is his name.

And you will be certain that I am the Lord your God, living in Zion, my holy mountain: and Jerusalem will be holy, and no strange person will ever again go through her.


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain