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Ill looks he will earn at yonder city gate, that finds fault; the wise word, there, is a thing abominable. (Amos 5, 10)
By my divine power I swear it, says the Lord God of hosts, pride of yours shall weary me, great houses of yours shall offend my sight, no longer; city and citizens, I will leave you at the enemy’s mercy. (Amos 6, 8)
Here, then, is the divine doom pronounced on thee: Wife of thine, here in the city streets, shall be dishonoured; sons and daughters of thine shall die at the sword’s point; lands of thine shall feel the measuring-rope. And for thyself, on unhallowed soil death awaits thee, when Israel is banished, as banished it needs must be, from the land of its birth. (Amos 7, 17)
He overthrown, and thou wouldst find thy way in at the gates of my own city; he overthrown, and thou wouldst rejoice at his discomfiture; he overthrown, and thou wouldst offer him battle? (Obadiah 1, 13)
Up, and to the great city of Nineve make thy way; I would have thee preach to them; great guilt of theirs claims my cognizance. (Jonah 1, 2)
Up, and to the great city of Nineve make thy way; there preach, what preach I bid thee. (Jonah 3, 2)
That voice he obeyed; rose up and took the road for Nineve, a great city indeed, three days’ journey from end to end. (Jonah 3, 3)
Jonas had left the city, and sat now under a little arbour he had made for himself on the east of it, waiting there in the shade to see what doom would fall on Nineve. (Jonah 4, 5)
And what of Nineve? Here is a great city, with a hundred and twenty thousand folk in it, and none of them can tell right from left, all these cattle, too; and may I not spare Nineve? (Jonah 4, 11)
Sorrow thou well mayst, lady of Sion, and labour as any woman brought to bed; city thou must needs leave, and lodge in the open country-side, nay, to distant Babylon thou must journey;✻ there it is thou wilt find deliverance, there it is the Lord will ransom thee from the power of thy enemies. (Micah 4, 10)
So comes the divine voice to yonder city; best he shall thrive, that stands in awe of thy name.✻ Listen, tribesmen, to that voice; which of you dares acclaim it? (Micah 6, 9)
City where the rich are ever busy with oppression, where all is treachery, and a man has a tongue in his mouth only to deceive! (Micah 6, 12)
