Lexicon :: Strong's H7151 - qiryâ

“For fire has gone out of Heshbon,

A flame from the city of Sihon;

It devoured Ar of Moab

And the lords of the heights of the Arnon.

Now Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they finished eating. When Joab heard the trumpet sound, he said, “[fn]Why is the city in such an uproar?”

“He scorns the tumult of the city,

And does not hear the shouting of the taskmaster.

Fair and beautiful in elevation, the joy of all the earth,

Is Mount Zion [the City of David] in the far north,

The city of the great King.

The rich man’s wealth is his fortress;

The ruin of the poor is their poverty.

When it goes well for the righteous, the city rejoices,

And when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city,

And like a high wall [of protection] in his own imagination and conceit.

A brother offended is harder to win over than a fortified city,

And contentions [separating families] are like the bars of a castle.

Scoffers set a city afire [by stirring up trouble],

But wise men turn away anger [and restore order with their good judgment].

How the faithful city has become a prostitute [idolatrous, despicable],

She who was full of justice!

Right standing with God once lodged in her,

But now murderers.

“Then I will restore your judges as at the first,

And your counselors as at the beginning;

Afterward you will be called the city of righteousness,

The faithful city.”

You [Jerusalem] who were full of noise,

A tumultuous city, a joyous and exuberant city;

Your slain were not slain [in a glorious death] with the sword,

Nor did they die in battle.

The city of chaos is broken down;

Every house is shut up so that no one may enter.

For You have made a city into a heap [of trash],

A fortified city into a ruin;

A palace of [fn]foreigners is no longer a city,

It will never be rebuilt.

“For He has thrown down the [arrogant] ones who dwell on high, the lofty and inaccessible city;

He lays it low, He lays it low to the ground, He hurls it to the dust.

Woe (judgment is coming) to [fn]Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David [once] camped!

Add [fn]yet another year; let the feasts run their course [but only one year more].

For the land of my people growing over with thorns and briars—

Yes, [mourn] for all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts and observances;

Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a undisturbed settlement,

A tent which will not be taken down;

Not one of its stakes will ever be pulled up,

Nor any of its ropes be severed.

“Why has the renowned city not been deserted,

The city of My joy!

My eyes fail because of tears [mourns Jeremiah],

My spirit is deeply disturbed;

My heart is poured out on the earth [in grief]

Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people [Jerusalem],

When little ones and infants faint

In the streets of the city.

Gilead is a city of wrongdoers;

It is tracked with bloody footprints.

“Writhe in pain and labor to give birth,

O Daughter of Zion,

Like a woman in childbirth;

For now you shall go out of the city,

Live in the field,

And go to Babylon.

There you will be rescued;

There the LORD shall redeem you

From the hand of your enemies.

“Because you [king of Babylon] have looted many nations,

All peoples who are left will loot you—

Because of human bloodshed and for the violence done to the land,

To the city and all its inhabitants.

“Woe (judgment is coming) to him who builds a city with bloodshed

And establishes a town by violence!

“For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you;

The destruction of the animals will terrify you

On account of human bloodshed and the violence done to the land,

To the city and all its inhabitants.