Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.

Bible References

According

1 Samuel 2:7
The Lord makes poor and rich;
He brings low, He also exalts.
Nehemiah 9:8
“You found his heart faithful before You,
And made a covenant with him
To give him the land of the Canaanite,
Of the Hittite and the Amorite,
Of the Perizzite, the Jebusite and the Girgashite—
To give it to his descendants.
And You have fulfilled Your promise,
For You are righteous.
Psalm 31:1
For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
In You, O Lord, I have taken refuge;
Let me never be ashamed;
In Your righteousness deliver me.
Psalm 71:2
In Your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
Incline Your ear to me and save me.
Psalm 143:1
A Psalm of David.
Hear my prayer, O Lord,
Give ear to my supplications!
Answer me in Your faithfulness, in Your righteousness!
Micah 6:4
“Indeed, I brought you up from the land of Egypt
And ransomed you from the house of slavery,
And I sent before you Moses, Aaron and Miriam.
2 Thessalonians 1:6
For after all it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Thy holy

Daniel 9:20
Now while I was speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God in behalf of the holy mountain of my God,
Psalm 87:1
A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A Song.
His foundation is in the holy mountains.
Joel 3:17
Then you will know that I am the Lord your God,
Dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain.
So Jerusalem will be holy,
And strangers will pass through it no more.
Zechariah 8:3
Thus says the Lord, ‘I will return to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.’

For the

Exodus 20:5
You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,
Leviticus 26:39
So those of you who may be left will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their forefathers they will rot away with them.
Psalm 106:6
We have sinned like our fathers,
We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.
Matthew 23:31
So you testify against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.
Luke 11:47
Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and it was your fathers who killed them.

Jerusalem

1 Kings 9:7
then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will cast out of My sight. So Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
Psalm 41:13
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
From everlasting to everlasting.
Amen and Amen.
Psalm 79:4
We have become a reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and derision to those around us.
Isaiah 64:9
Do not be angry beyond measure, O Lord,
Nor remember iniquity forever;
Behold, look now, all of us are Your people.
Jeremiah 24:9
I will make them a terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse in all places where I will scatter them.
Jeremiah 29:18
I will pursue them with the sword, with famine and with pestilence; and I will make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and a horror and a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,
Lamentations 1:8
Jerusalem sinned greatly,
Therefore she has become an unclean thing.
All who honored her despise her
Because they have seen her nakedness;
Even she herself groans and turns away.
Lamentations 2:15
All who pass along the way
Clap their hands in derision at you;
They hiss and shake their heads
At the daughter of Jerusalem,
“Is this the city of which they said,
The perfection of beauty,
A joy to all the earth’?”

General references

Psalm 102:14
Surely Your servants find pleasure in her stones
And feel pity for her dust.
Jeremiah 23:40
I will put an everlasting reproach on you and an everlasting humiliation which will not be forgotten.”
Lamentations 3:50
Until the Lord looks down
And sees from heaven.