Isaiah 1:8
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8 Beautiful Jerusalem[a] stands abandoned
like a watchman’s shelter in a vineyard,
like a lean-to in a cucumber field after the harvest,
like a helpless city under siege.
Footnotes
- 1:8 Hebrew The daughter of Zion.
Zechariah 9:9
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Zion’s Coming King
9 Rejoice, O people of Zion![a]
Shout in triumph, O people of Jerusalem!
Look, your king is coming to you.
He is righteous and victorious,[b]
yet he is humble, riding on a donkey—
riding on a donkey’s colt.
John 12:15
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15 “Don’t be afraid, people of Jerusalem.[a]
Look, your King is coming,
riding on a donkey’s colt.”[b]
Zechariah 2:10
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10 The Lord says, “Shout and rejoice, O beautiful Jerusalem,[a] for I am coming to live among you.
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- 2:10 Hebrew O daughter of Zion.
Isaiah 62:11
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11 The Lord has sent this message to every land:
“Tell the people of Israel,[a]
‘Look, your Savior is coming.
See, he brings his reward with him as he comes.’”
Footnotes
- 62:11 Hebrew Tell the daughter of Zion.
Isaiah 10:32
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32 The enemy stops at Nob for the rest of that day.
He shakes his fist at beautiful Mount Zion, the mountain of Jerusalem.
Lamentations 2:6
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6 He has broken down his Temple
as though it were merely a garden shelter.
The Lord has blotted out all memory
of the holy festivals and Sabbath days.
Kings and priests fall together
before his fierce anger.
Lamentations 2:1
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God’s Anger at Sin
2 The Lord in his anger
has cast a dark shadow over beautiful Jerusalem.[a]
The fairest of Israel’s cities lies in the dust,
thrown down from the heights of heaven.
In his day of great anger,
the Lord has shown no mercy even to his Temple.[b]
Isaiah 37:22
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22 the Lord has spoken this word against him:
“The virgin daughter of Zion
despises you and laughs at you.
The daughter of Jerusalem
shakes her head in derision as you flee.
Isaiah 4:4
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4 The Lord will wash the filth from beautiful Zion[a]
and cleanse Jerusalem of its bloodstains
with the hot breath of fiery judgment.
Footnotes
- 4:4 Or from the women of Zion; Hebrew reads from the daughters of Zion.
Psalm 9:14
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14 Save me so I can praise you publicly at Jerusalem’s gates,
so I can rejoice that you have rescued me.
Job 27:18
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18 The wicked build houses as fragile as a spider’s web,[a]
as flimsy as a shelter made of branches.
Luke 19:43-44
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43 Before long your enemies will build ramparts against your walls and encircle you and close in on you from every side. 44 They will crush you into the ground, and your children with you. Your enemies will not leave a single stone in place, because you did not recognize it when God visited you.[a]”
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- 19:44 Greek did not recognize the time of your visitation, a reference to the Messiah’s coming.
Jeremiah 4:17
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17 They surround Jerusalem like watchmen around a field,
for my people have rebelled against me,”
says the Lord.
Isaiah 8:8
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8 and sweep into Judah until it is chin deep. It will spread its wings, submerging your land from one end to the other, O Immanuel.
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