26 Bible Verses about Cities Under Attack

He who has no rule over his own spirit is like a broken down city without a wall.

When you come near a city to fight against it, then shout peace to it.

A wise one scales the city of the mighty and brings down the strength of its hope.

who made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; who did not open the house for his prisoners?

But of the cities of these people, which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes.

And he knew his widows, and he laid their cities waste, and the land and its fullness was desolated, from the sound of his roaring.

And I will make your cities waste and cause your sanctuaries to be deserted. And I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.

And I will pluck your shrines out of the midst of you; so I will destroy your cities.

And they shall be ruined in the midst of the wasted lands, and her cities shall be in the midst of the wasted cities.

And you shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city. And you shall cut down every good tree and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.

And they beat down the cities, and each man cast his stone on every good piece of land, and filled it. And they stopped all the wells of water, and cut down all the good trees. Only in Kir-haraseth did they leave the stones of it. But the slingers surrounded it and struck it.

Yet the fortified city shall be wasted, and the dwelling forsaken and left like a wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down and eat up its branches.

From Aroer, by the brink of the river of Arnon, and the city by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us. Jehovah our God delivered all to us.

In that day five cities in the land of Egypt shall speak the language of Canaan and swear to Jehovah of Hosts; one shall be called the City of Ruin.

therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities, from his borders, the glory of the land, even Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim,

so, mountains of Israel, hear the Word of the Lord Jehovah. So says the Lord Jehovah to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the deserted wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and a mockery to the rest of the nations all around.

So two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water, but they were not satisfied; yet you have not returned to Me, says Jehovah.

And they burned with fire all their cities, their homes, and all their towers.

The young lions roared against him; they gave their voice. And they made his land a waste; his cities are burned without inhabitant.

The cities of Aroer are forsaken; now they are for flocks; they shall lie down, and no one terrifies them. And the fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the rest of Syria. They shall be as the glory of the sons of Israel, says Jehovah of Hosts.

Behold, the noise of the rumor has come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a den of jackals.

If I go out into the field, then I see those killed with the sword! And if I enter into the city, then, behold, sicknesses of famine! Yes, both the prophet and the priest have gone up into a land that they do not know.

And I will cut off the cities of your land, and throw down all your strongholds.

And the great city came to be into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And great Babylon was remembered before God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the anger of His wrath.

And if he has gotten into a city, then all Israel shall bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river until there is not one small stone found there.

I have been in travels often; in dangers from waters; in dangers from robbers; in dangers from my race; in dangers from the heathen; in dangers in the city; in dangers in the wilderness; in dangers on the sea; in dangers among false brothers.