Isaiah 49:21
Then you'll ask in your heart, "Who bore these children for me, although I was childless and barren, and an exile and cast aside? Who brought these up? Look! For my part I was left all alone; but as for these, where have they come from?'
Isaiah 1:8
"The daughter of Zion is left abandoned, like a booth in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, or like a city under siege.
Isaiah 3:26
and her gates lament and mourn. Ravaged, she will sit on the ground."
Isaiah 5:13
Therefore my people go into exile because they lack understanding; my honored men go hungry, and the crowd is parched with thirst.
Isaiah 51:17-20
"Awake, Awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the LORD's hand from the cup that is his anger. You have drunk to the dregs the cup that makes you stagger, and have drained it.
Isaiah 52:2
Shake yourself from the dust and arise, and sit on your throne, O Jerusalem! Loosen the bonds from your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Isaiah 54:3-8
For you will spread out to the right hand and to the left, and your descendants will possess the nations and will populate the deserted towns.
Isaiah 60:15
"Although you have been forsaken and despised, with no one traveling through, I will make you the everlasting pride, the joy of all generations.
Isaiah 62:4
And you'll no longer be called "Deserted,' and your land will no longer be called "Desolate'; but people will call you "Hephzibah,' and your land "Beulah' for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be married."
Isaiah 64:10
Your holy cities have become a desert; Zion has become like a desert, Jerusalem a desolation.
Jeremiah 31:15-17
This is what the LORD says: "A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter crying. Rachel is crying, and she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no longer alive."
Lamentations 1:1-3
How lonely she lies, the city that thronged with people! Like a widow she has become, this great one among nations! The princess among provinces has become a vassal.
Matthew 24:29-30
"Immediately after the troubles of those days, "The sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of heaven will be shaken loose.'
Luke 21:24
They will fall by the edge of the sword and be carried off as captives among all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the unbelievers until the times of the unbelievers are fulfilled."
Romans 11:11-17
And so I ask, "They have not stumbled so as to fall, have they?" Of course not! On the contrary, because of their stumbling, salvation has come to the gentiles to make the Jews jealous.
Romans 11:24
After all, if you were cut off from what is naturally a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much easier it will be for these natural branches to be grafted back into their own olive tree!
Romans 11:26-31
In this way, all Israel will be saved, as it is written, "The Deliverer will come from Zion; he will remove ungodliness from Jacob.
Galatians 3:29
And if you belong to the Messiah, then you are Abraham's descendants indeed, and heirs according to the promise.
Galatians 4:26-29
But the heavenly Jerusalem is the free woman, and she is our spiritual mother.