this city.

Jeremiah 5:9-11
Should I not punish them for these things?" declares the LORD. "Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this? . . .

Jeremiah 6:6, 7
For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Cut down the trees and raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; there is nothing but oppression in her midst. . . .

Jeremiah 23:14, 15
And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns his back on wickedness. They are all like Sodom to Me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah." . . .

1 Kings 11:7, 8
At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites. . . .

2 Kings 21:4-7, 16
Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem I will put My Name." . . .

2 Kings 22:16, 17
that this is what the LORD says: I am about to bring calamity on this place and on its people, according to all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read, . . .

2 Kings 23:15
He even pulled down the altar at Bethel, the high place set up by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. Then he burned the high place, ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole.

Ezekiel 22:2-22
"As for you, son of man, will you judge her? Will you pass judgment on the city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her abominations . . .

Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

Luke 13:33, 34
Nevertheless, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day, for it is not admissible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem. . . .

a provocation of mine anger.

Jeremiah 27:10
For they prophesy to you a lie that will serve to remove you from your land; I will banish you and you will perish.

2 Kings 23:27
For the LORD had said, "I will also remove Judah from My sight, just as I have removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, which I have chosen, and the temple of which I said, 'My Name shall be there.'"

2 Kings 24:3, 4
Surely this happened to Judah at the LORD's command, to remove them from His presence because of the sins of Manasseh and all that he had done, . . .

Lamentations 1:8
Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.