The Degenerate City

21 (A)How the faithful city has become a [a]harlot!
It was full of justice;
Righteousness lodged in it,
But now (B)murderers.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:21 Unfaithful

And their dead bodies will lie in the street of (A)the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, (B)where also [a]our Lord was crucified.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 11:8 NU, M their

But leave out (A)the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, (B)for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will (C)tread the holy city underfoot for (D)forty-two months.

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22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels,

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52 (A)Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of (B)the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers,

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Jesus Laments over Jerusalem(A)

34 (B)“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

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“Thus says the Lord:

(A)‘I will return to Zion,
And (B)dwell in the midst of Jerusalem.
Jerusalem (C)shall be called the City of Truth,
(D)The Mountain of the Lord of hosts,
(E)The Holy Mountain.’

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The Wickedness of Jerusalem

Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted,
To the oppressing city!
She has not obeyed His voice,
She has not received correction;
She has not trusted in the Lord,
She has not drawn near to her God.

(A)Her princes in her midst are roaring lions;
Her judges are (B)evening wolves
That leave not a bone till morning.

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You who hate good and love evil;
Who strip the skin from [a]My people,
And the flesh from their bones;
Who also (A)eat the flesh of My people,
Flay their skin from them,
Break their bones,
And chop them in pieces
Like meat for the pot,
(B)Like flesh in the caldron.”

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 3:2 Lit. them

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