'City' in the Bible

The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.

How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called 'The city of righteousness, a faithful town.'

that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!"

Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away, Philistia, all of you; for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.

The burden of Damascus: "Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.

I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of Armies. One will be called "The city of destruction."

You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.

You saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel?

Take a harp; go about the city, you prostitute that has been forgotten. Make sweet melody. Sing many songs, that you may be remembered.

The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.

For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.

Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you.

In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city. God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks.

For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city. He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it even to the dust.

For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.

Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;

Thorns and briars will come up on my people's land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;

Though hail flattens the forest, and the city is leveled completely.

Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent that won't be removed. Its stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.

Don't let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, "Yahweh will surely deliver us. This city won't be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."'

Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?'"

Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, 'He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.

By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come to this city,' says Yahweh.

For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.'"

I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.

I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways. He shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward," says Yahweh of Armies.

(for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name):

Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.

The sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending to you; and all those who despised you shall bow themselves down at the soles of your feet; and they shall call you The city of Yahweh, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

They shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Yahweh: and you shall be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.

A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Yahweh that renders recompense to his enemies.