Lamentations 1:1
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The Deserted City
1 How lonely sits the city
that once was full of people!
How like a widow she has become,
she that was great among the nations!
She that was a princess among the provinces
has become subject to forced labor.(A)
Isaiah 3:26
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
26 And her gates shall lament and mourn;
desolate, she shall sit upon the ground.(A)
Ezra 4:20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 Jerusalem has had mighty kings who ruled over the whole province Beyond the River, to whom tribute, custom, and toll were paid.(A)
Read full chapter
1 Kings 4:21
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
21 [a]Solomon was sovereign over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, even to the border of Egypt; they brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.[b](A)]]
Read full chapter
Revelation 18:16-17
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 “Alas, alas, the great city,
clothed in fine linen,
in purple and scarlet,
adorned with gold,
with jewels, and with pearls!(A)
17 For in one hour all this wealth has been laid waste!”
And all shipmasters and seafarers, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off(B)
Read full chapter
Isaiah 54:4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed;
do not be discouraged, for you will not suffer disgrace,
for you will forget the shame of your youth,
and the disgrace of your widowhood you will remember no more.(A)
Zephaniah 2:15
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
15 Is this the exultant city
that lived secure,
that said to itself,
“I am, and there is no one else”?
What a desolation it has become,
a lair for wild animals!
Everyone who passes by it
hisses and shakes the fist.(A)
Lamentations 5:16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 The crown has fallen from our head;
woe to us, for we have sinned!
Isaiah 22:2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 city full of shouting,
tumultuous city, panic-stricken town?
Your slain are not slain by the sword,
nor are they dead in battle.(A)
2 Kings 23:35
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
35 Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land in order to meet Pharaoh’s demand for money. He exacted the silver and the gold from the people of the land, from all according to their assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.(A)
Read full chapter
Revelation 18:7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 As she glorified herself and lived luxuriously,
so give her a like measure of torment and grief.
Since in her heart she says,
‘I rule as a queen;
I am no widow,
and I will never see grief,’(A)
Zechariah 8:4-5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 Thus says the Lord of hosts: Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of their great age.(A) 5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.(B)
Read full chapter
Ezekiel 26:16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 Then all the princes of the sea shall step down from their thrones; they shall remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They shall clothe themselves with trembling and shall sit on the ground; they shall tremble every moment and be appalled at you.(A)
Read full chapterNew Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.