Quotes about Jerusalem
Then the LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear the words of this covenant and carry them out.
— Jeremiah 11:6
And the LORD told me, “There is a conspiracy among the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.
— Jeremiah 11:9
Then the cities of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to which they have been burning incense, but these gods certainly will not save them in their time of disaster.
— Jeremiah 11:12
Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, O Judah; the altars of shame you have set up—the altars to burn incense to Baal—are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’
— Jeremiah 11:13
“This is what the LORD says: In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
— Jeremiah 13:9
then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am going to fill with drunkenness all who live in this land—the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the people of Jerusalem.
— Jeremiah 13:13
Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”
— Jeremiah 13:27
“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
— Jeremiah 14:2
And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own evil upon them.
— Jeremiah 14:16
I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.
— Jeremiah 15:4
Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?
— Jeremiah 15:5
This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and stand at the gate of the people, through which the kings of Judah go in and out; and stand at all the other gates of Jerusalem.
— Jeremiah 17:19