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your city come to this, the same city that had so long boasted of her ancientry! For her townsfolk there is a journey to make on foot, a distant journey.✻ (Isaiah 23, 7)
Who was it plotted the downfall of Tyre, a city once so rich in crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers were among the great men of the earth? (Isaiah 23, 8)
After this thou wilt be forgotten, thou city of Tyre, for seventy years, long as the life-time of one of thy kings. At the end of those seventy years, Tyre will know the meaning of the harlot’s song, (Isaiah 23, 15)
Ransacked and ruined lies yonder city,✻ where every house denies entrance, (Isaiah 24, 10)
a city left to desolation, with ruin fallen upon its gates. (Isaiah 24, 12)
A heap of stones where, but for thy decree, a town stood; a crumbling ruin, all that is left of a walled city; a fortress of the invader, dismantled now and never to be built again. (Isaiah 25, 2)
Mountain-dwellers he can bring low, towering city walls he can level, level them with the ground, drag them down to the dust. (Isaiah 26, 5)
Meanwhile, the city that once was fortified must lie desolate, forsaken, that fair dwelling-place, abandoned, part of the wilderness; cattle will browse and lie down, and crop the tall bushes on it; (Isaiah 27, 10)
Out upon the drunken lords of Ephraim, and the city that is their boast, their crown! Quickly shall it fade, this flower, in the pride of its beauty. Careless they dwell at the head of yonder fruitful valley, all besotted with their wine; (Isaiah 28, 1)
Out upon her, Ariel,✻ the lion-city King David stormed long ago! This year once added to the tale of years, feast-days of it over and gone, (Isaiah 29, 1)
I will lay siege to Ariel, that shall roar and roar again, a lion-city indeed. (Isaiah 29, 2)
watching a man’s words to convict him of guilt, defrauding him of justice at the city gate, setting aside, with a quibble, the plea of the innocent? (Isaiah 29, 21)
