Bible Verses About Jerusalem

And Judah to the age doth dwell, And Jerusalem to generation and generation.

And I have declared their blood innocent, That I did not declare innocent, And Jehovah is dwelling in Zion!

And I say, `Whither are thou going?' And he saith unto me, `To measure Jerusalem, to see how much is its breadth, and how much its length.'

And lo, the messenger who is speaking with me is going out, and another messenger is going out to meet him,

and he saith unto him, `Run, speak unto this young man, saying: Unwalled villages inhabit doth Jerusalem, From the abundance of man and beast in her midst.

And I--I am to her--an affirmation of Jehovah, A wall of fire round about, And for honour I am in her midst.

and ye shall begin to hear of wars, and reports of wars; see, be not troubled, for it behoveth all these to come to pass, but the end is not yet.

`For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places;

and all these are the beginning of sorrows;

then they shall deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated by all the nations because of my name;

and then shall many be stumbled, and they shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another.

`And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray;

and because of the abounding of the lawlessness, the love of the many shall become cold;

but he who did endure to the end, he shall be saved;

and this good news of the reign shall be proclaimed in all the world, for a testimony to all the nations; and then shall the end arrive.

`Whenever, therefore, ye may see the abomination of the desolation, that was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (whoever is reading let him observe)

saying--`If thou didst know, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things for thy peace; but now they were hid from thine eyes.

`Because days shall come upon thee, and thine enemies shall cast around thee a rampart, and compass thee round, and press thee on every side,

and lay thee low, and thy children within thee, and they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou didst not know the time of thy inspection.'

And they questioned him, saying, `Teacher, when, then, shall these things be? and what is the sign when these things may be about to happen?'

And he said, `See--ye may not be led astray, for many shall come in my name, saying--I am he , and the time hath come nigh; go not on then after them;

and when ye may hear of wars and uprisings, be not terrified, for it behoveth these things to happen first, but the end is not immediately.'

Then said he to them, `Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom,

great shakings also in every place, and famines, and pestilences, there shall be; fearful things also, and great signs from heaven there shall be;

And Jesus was walking after these things in Galilee, for he did not wish to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him,