Nehemiah 11:3 Now these are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah lived everyone in his possession in their cities, to wit, Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Nehemiah 11:20 The residue of Israel, of the priests, the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, everyone in his inheritance. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Nehemiah 12:44 On that day were men appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the wave offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, according to the fields of the cities, the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites who waited. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Esther 9:2 the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, to lay hands on those who wanted to harm them. No one could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen on all the people. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Esther 9:19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, who are dwelling in cities of the villages, are making the fourteenth day of the month of Adar -- joy and banquet, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another. (YLT)
Job 15:28 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Job 22:20 saying,'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.' cities which are not inhabited. (WEB)
Psalms 9:6 The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 69:35 For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 72:16 May he be as a rich cornfield in the land upon the top of the mountains; may his fruit rustle like Lebanon; and may they blossom out of the city like grass of the earth. (See RSV)
Ecclesiastes 2:16 For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool! the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars); (WEB)
Isaiah 1:7 Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 6:11 Then I said, "Lord, how long?" He answered, "Until cities are waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land becomes utterly waste, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 14:17 who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who didn't release his prisoners to their home?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 14:21 Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 17:2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 17:9 In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 19:18 In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of Armies. One will be called "The city of destruction." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 25:3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify Thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear Thee. (See NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 33:8 The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn't respect man. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS)
Isaiah 34:13 And thorns will come up in her fair houses, and waste plants in her strong towers: and foxes will make their holes there, and it will be a meeting-place for ostriches. (See NAS)
Isaiah 36:1 Now it happened in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah, and captured them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 37:26 Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 40:9 You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength. Lift it up. Don't be afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, "Behold, your God!" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Isaiah 42:11 Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains! (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Isaiah 44:26 who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem,'She will be inhabited;' and of the cities of Judah,'They will be built,' and'I will raise up its waste places;' (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Isaiah 54:3 For you shall spread aboard on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 54:4 And desolate cities they cause to be inhabited. Fear not, for thou art not ashamed, Nor blush, for thou art not confounded, For the shame of thy youth thou forgettest, And the reproach of thy widowhood Thou dost not remember any more. (YLT)
Isaiah 61:4 They shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 64:10 Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 1:15 For, behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says Yahweh; and they shall come, and they shall set everyone his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls all around, and against all the cities of Judah. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 2:15 The young lions have roared on him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 2:28 But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 4:5 Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow the trumpet in the land! Cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 4:7 A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 4:16 make mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 4:26 I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of Yahweh, and before his fierce anger. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 4:29 For the noise of the horsemen and bowmen the whole city fleeth; they go into the thickets, and climb up upon the rocks; every city is forsaken, and not a man dwelleth therein. (See RSV)
Jeremiah 5:6 Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, and their backsliding is increased. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 5:17 They shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat; they shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; they shall beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust, with the sword. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 7:17 Don't you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 7:34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 8:14 Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 9:11 I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 10:22 The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling place of jackals. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 11:6 Yahweh 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 do them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 11:12 Then shall the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry to the gods to which they offer incense: but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 11:13 For according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 13:19 The cities of the South are shut up, and there is none to open them: Judah is carried away captive, all of it; it is wholly carried away captive. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 14:2 Judah mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. (See NIV)
Jeremiah 17:26 They shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meal offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving, to the house of Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 19:15 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her cities all the evil that I have spoken against it; for they have hardened their necks, not to hear my words. (DBY YLT)
Jeremiah 20:16 Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn't repent: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 22:6 For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Jeremiah 25:18 to wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and its kings, and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 26:2 Thus says Yahweh: Stand in the court of Yahweh's house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Yahweh's house, all the words that I command you to speak to them; don't diminish a word. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 31:21 Set up road signs, make guideposts; set your heart toward the highway, even the way by which you went: turn again, virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 31:23 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Yet again shall they use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I shall bring again their captivity: Yahweh bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 31:24 Judah and all its cities shall dwell therein together, the farmers, and those who go about with flocks. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 32:44 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the deeds, and seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill country, and in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South: for I will cause their captivity to return, says Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 33:10 Thus says Yahweh: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, about which you say, It is waste, without man and without animal, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without animal, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 33:12 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Yet again shall there be in this place, which is waste, without man and without animal, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 33:13 In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks again pass under the hands of him who numbers them, says Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 34:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of it, saying: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 34:7 when the king of Babylon's army was fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these alone remained of the cities of Judah as fortified cities. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 34:22 Behold, I will command, says Yahweh, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 36:6 therefore you go, and read in the scroll, which you have written from my mouth, the words of Yahweh in the ears of the people in Yahweh's house on the fast day; and also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 36:9 Now it happened in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 40:5 Now while he was not yet gone back, Go back then, said he, to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or go wherever it seems right to you to go. So the captain of the guard gave him food and a present, and let him go. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 44:2 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: You have seen all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwells therein, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 44:6 Therefore my wrath and my anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is this day. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 44:17 But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 44:21 The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, didn't Yahweh remember them, and didn't it come into his mind? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 46:8 Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he says, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities and its inhabitants. (WEB ASV RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 48:9 Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 48:15 Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 48:18 You daughter who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you, he has destroyed your strongholds. (See NIV)
Jeremiah 48:24 and on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 48:28 You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 48:41 The cities are taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. (JPS YLT RSV)
Jeremiah 49:1 Of the children of Ammon. Thus says Yahweh: Has Israel no sons? has he no heir? why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people well in its cities? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 49:13 For I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all its cities shall be perpetual wastes. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 49:18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Yahweh, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)
Jeremiah 50:32 The proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all who are around him. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 50:40 As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Yahweh, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)
Jeremiah 51:43 Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Lamentations 1:1 How hath she sat alone, The city abounding with people! She hath been as a widow, The mighty among nations! Princes among provinces, She hath become tributary! (See RSV)
Lamentations 5:11 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Ezekiel 6:6 In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be abolished. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Ezekiel 12:20 The cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Ezekiel 19:7 He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Ezekiel 25:5 I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a resting place for flocks: and you shall know that I am Yahweh. (See RSV)
Ezekiel 25:9 therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Ezekiel 26:19 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep on you, and the great waters shall cover you; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 29:12 I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be a desolation forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 30:7 They shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 30:17 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword; and these cities shall go into captivity. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NIV)
Ezekiel 35:4 I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Ezekiel 35:9 I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Ezekiel 36:4 therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)