'City' in the Bible

His children are far from safety.They are crushed at the city gate,with no one to rescue them.

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!

City officials stopped talkingand covered their mouths with their hands.

if I ever cast my vote against a fatherless childwhen I saw that I had support in the city gate,

He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.

Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.

There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.

{A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah.} Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.

Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.

And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.

Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?

Why do you look with envy, mountains with many peaks,At the mountain [of the city of Zion] which God has desired for His dwelling place?Yes, the Lord will dwell there forever.

Those who sit at the city gate talk about me,and drunkards make up songs about me.

There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

Written by the Korahites; a psalm, a song. The Lord's city is in the holy hills.

Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.

“I will mention Rahab (Egypt) and Babylon among those who know Me—Behold, Philistia and Tyre with Ethiopia (Cush)—‘This one was born there.’”

The singers as well as the players of flutes will say,“All my springs and sources of joy are in you [Jerusalem, city of God].”

I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.

They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;

Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?

Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:“May they prosper who love you [holy city].

{A Song of degrees for Solomon.} Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Happy is the man who has filled his quiver with them.Such men will never be put to shamewhen they speak with their enemies at the city gate.

By the rivers of Babylon,There we [captives] sat down and wept,When we remembered Zion [the city God imprinted on our hearts].

Our cattle will be weighted down with produce. No one will break through our walls, no one will be taken captive, and there will be no terrified cries in our city squares.

She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.

She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,

For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.

By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.

Do not rob the poor because he is poor [and defenseless],Nor crush the afflicted [by legal proceedings] at the gate [where the city court is held],

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.

Her husband is known at the city gates,where he sits among the elders of the land.

Give her the reward of her labor,and let her works praise her at the city gates.

Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.

And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.

I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellers as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

They have gone through the pass, saying,“Geba will be our lodging place for the night.”Ramah trembles, and Gibeah [the city] of Saul has fled.

Yet today the Assyrian will halt at Nob [the city of priests];He shakes his fist at the mountain of the Daughter of Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.

That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.

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

“The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,And sovereignty from DamascusAnd the remnant of Aram;They will be like the glory of the sons of Israel,”Declares the Lord of hosts.

And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.

Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.

Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

Then you counted the houses of JerusalemAnd you tore down the houses [to get materials] to fortify the city wall [by extending it].

Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?

He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.

Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.

The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.

The fortified city (along with the very tops of your walls) he will knock down, he will bring it down, he will throw it down to the dusty ground.

In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.

For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.

Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

He will give discernment to the one who makes judicial decisions, and strength to those who defend the city from attackers.

Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.

I will bring distress to Ariel,And she will be a city of lamenting and mourning;And she will be like an Ariel to me.

those who bear false testimony against a person, who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges.

Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.

Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, sent to mock the living God, and perhaps he will rebuke the words that the LORD your God has heard. So lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives in this city."

So the Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah [a fortified city of Judah], for he had heard that the king had left Lachish.

Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?

Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.

By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.

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

And I will deliver thee 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 direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.