19 occurrences in 13 translations

'Towns' in the Bible

Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.

Verse ConceptsForeignersPeace, Human Destruction OfPoverty, Causes OfDestruction Of CountriesBurning CitiesSuffering From ForeignersStrangers in israelAliens

And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.

Verse ConceptsSitting In DejectionMourning Due To Catastrophe

Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men, and the land becomes completely waste,

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of CitiesEmpty Cities

For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my knowledge, for I am wise: and I have taken away the limits of the peoples' lands, and the stores of their wealth have become mine; and I have made towns low in the dust, sending destruction on those living in them;

Verse ConceptsPride, Examples OfWisdom, Human NatureFalse WisdomActing For Oneself

Who made the world a waste, overturning its towns; who did not let his prisoners loose from the prison-house.

Verse ConceptsPrisonersCities Under AttackImprisonments

Her towns are unpeopled for ever; there the flocks take their rest in peace, without fear.

Verse ConceptsEmpty CitiesPasturing The Flock

In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for a heritage, and they will come to destruction.

Verse ConceptsEmpty Cities

In that day there will be five towns in the land of Egypt using the language of Canaan, and making oaths to the Lord of armies; and one of them will be named, The Town of the Sun.

Verse ConceptsLanguagesFive ThingsCities Under Attack

So a strong nation will extol you; the towns of powerful nations will fear you.

Verse ConceptsApprovalAcclaimingPraising God

The highways are waste, no man is journeying there: the agreement is broken, he has made sport of the towns, he has no thought for man.

Verse ConceptsHighwayInferiorityTreatyEmpty ThingsTravellersTragedy On The StreetsHighways

And it came about in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah that Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the walled towns of Judah and took them.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsArmies, Against IsraelNations Attacking Israel

Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.

Verse ConceptsGuidance, God's Promises OfHistoryDestruction Of CitiesHearing About GodGod Planning Of OldGod's Plans

"Climb up a high mountain, you messenger of good news to Zion! Lift up your voice with strength, you messenger to Jerusalem! Lift it up! Don't be afraid! Say to the towns of Judah, "Here is your God!'

Verse Conceptsevangelists, identity ofevangelism, nature ofClimbingGospel, Descriptions OfHeraldVoicesWatchfulness, Of BelieversNames And Titles For ChristGood TidingsHe Is Our God

Let the desert cry out, its towns and the villages where Kedar lives; and let those who live in Sela sing for joy. Let them shout aloud from the mountaintops.

Verse ConceptsBlessing In The Wilderness

who fulfills the oracles of his prophetic servants and brings to pass the announcements of his messengers, who says about Jerusalem, 'She will be inhabited,' and about the towns of Judah, 'They will be rebuilt, her ruins I will raise up,'

Verse ConceptsBeginningArchaeologyWaste Places RestoredSure KnowledgeRebuilding Jerusalem

The Lord says to the man of his selection, to Cyrus, whom I have taken by the right hand, putting down nations before him, and taking away the arms of kings; making the doors open before him, so that the ways into the towns may not be shut;

Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorBabylon, History Ofelection, responsibilities ofCivil authoritiesAuthority, of human institutionsHuman Authority, Instituted By GodKingdomsHand Of GodPunishment, Nature OfOpen DoorsPeople Stripping PeopleThe Lord's AnointedBlessings For The Right HandSolar Eclipsearmorempowerment

For you will spread out to the right hand and to the left, and your descendants will possess the nations and will populate the deserted towns.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingCities In IsraelMaking Decisionslimitationscredibility

And they will be building again the old broken walls, and will make new the old waste places, and will put up again the towns which have been waste for long generations.

Verse ConceptsGenerationsBeginningRuinsBuilding CitiesArchaeologyWaste Places RestoredRepairingRebuilding JerusalemRenewalbridgesrebuilding

Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls.

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