Bible Verses About Walls

And Ozias built towers in Jerusalem over the gate of the corner, and over the gate of the valley, and the rest, in the same side of the wall, and fortified them.

He built up also with great diligence all the wall that had been broken down, and built towers upon it, and another wall without: and he repaired Mello in the city of David, and made all sorts of arms and shields:

And the enemies set fire to the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burnt all the towers, and what soever was precious they destroyed.

Be it known to the king, that we went to the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which they are building with unpolished stones, and timber is laid in the walls: and this work is carried on diligently and advanceth in their hands.

And they said to me: They that have remained, and are left of the captivity there in the province, are in great affliction, and reproach: and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire.

And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me, and I told not any man what God had put in my heart to do in Jerusalem, and there was no beast with me, but the beast that I rode upon.

And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, and before the dragon fountain, and to the dung gate, and I viewed the wall of Jerusalem which was broken down, and the gates thereof which were consumed with fire.

And I passed to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's aqueduct, and there was no place for the beast on which I rode to pass.

And I went up in the night by the torrent, and viewed the wall, and going back I came to the gate of the valley, and returned.

But the magistrates knew not whither I went, or what I did: neither had I as yet told any thing to the Jews, or to the priests, or to the nobles, or to the magistrates, or to the rest that did the work.

Then I said to them: You know the affliction wherein we are, because Jerusalem is desolate, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire: come, and let us build up the walls of Jerusalem, and let us be no longer a reproach.

And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, and to keep the dedication, and to rejoice with thanksgiving, and with singing, and with cymbals, and psalteries and harps.

And their sepulchres shall be their houses for ever. Their dwelling places to all generations: they have called their lands by their names.

Then shall my enemies be turned back. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, behold I know thou art my God.

In a desert land, and where there is no way, and no water: so in the sanctuary have I come before thee, to see thy power and thy glory.

The substance of the rich man is the city of his strength, and as a strong wall compassing him about.

And behold it was all filled with nettles, and thorns had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall was broken down.

The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails deeply fastened in, which by the counsel of masters are given from one shepherd.

My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart. Behold he standeth behind our wall, looking through the windows, looking through the lattices.

The keepers that go about the city found me: they struck me: and wounded me: the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

If she be a wall: let us build upon it bulwarks of silver: if she be a door, let us join it together with boards of cedar.

I am a wall: and my breasts are as a tower since I am become in his presence as one finding peace.

And upon every high tower, and every fenced wall.

And now I will shew you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted: I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down.

And have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and broken down houses to fortify the wall.