God’s End-Time People Turn into a Harlot
Isaiah 1:21
How the faithful city
has become a harlot!
She was filled with justice;
righteousness made its abode in her,
but now murderers.
God’s People Are Addicted to Sports/Entertainment
Isaiah 22:2
You resounded with loud cheers—
a tumultuous town, a city of revelry!
God’s People Who Make Covenants Act Entitled
Isaiah 48:1–2
Who take oaths in the name of Jehovah
and invoke the God of Israel,
though not in truth or in righteousness,
who call yourselves of the holy city,
upheld by the God of Israel,
God’s Servant Sets His Lord’s House in Order
Isaiah 66:6–7
Hark, a tumult from the city, a noise from the temple!
It is the voice of Jehovah
paying his enemies what is due them.
Before she is in labor, she gives birth;
before her ordeal overtakes her, she delivers a son!
God’s Elite People Descend into the Dust
Isaiah 26:5
He has put down the elite inhabitants
of the exalted city
by casting it to the ground,
laying it even with the dust.
God’s Repentant People Come under Attack
Isaiah 1:8–9
The Daughter of Zion is left
like a shelter in a vineyard,
a hut in a melon field,
a city under siege.
Had not Jehovah of Hosts left us a few survivors,
we should have been as Sodom,
or become like Gomorrah.
God Protects His City for His Servant’s Sake
Isaiah 37:33–35
Therefore, thus says Jehovah
concerning the king of Assyria:
He shall not enter this city or shoot an arrow here.
He shall not advance against it with armor,
nor erect siegeworks against it.
By the way he came he shall return;
he shall not enter this city, says Jehovah.
will protect this city and save it,
for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.
The City of Zion Rises as It Were from the Dust
Isaiah 52:1–2
Awake, arise; clothe yourself with power, O Zion!
Put on your robes of glory, O Jerusalem, holy city.
No more shall the uncircumcised and defiled enter you.
Shake yourself free, rise from the dust;
sit enthroned, O Jerusalem.
Loose yourself from the bands around your neck,
O captive Daughter of Zion.
Zion Prepares to Receive Her Savior—Her Salvation
Isaiah 62:11–12
Tell the Daughter of Zion,
See, your Salvation comes,
his reward with him, his work preceding him.
They shall be called the holy people,
the redeemed of Jehovah;
and you shall be known as in demand,
a city never deserted.
To Those Who Trust in Him, Salvation Protects
Isaiah 26:1–3
Our city is strong; salvation he has set up
as walls and barricades!
Open the gates to let in the nation
righteous because it keeps faith.
Those whose minds are steadfast, [O Jehovah],
you preserve in perfect peace,
for in you they are secure.
The Millennial Zion Forms an Abode of Peace
Isaiah 33:20
Behold Zion, the city of our solemn assemblies;
let your eyes rest upon Jerusalem,
the abode of peace—an immovable tent,
whose stakes shall never be uprooted,
nor any of its cords severed.
Glorious Zion Becomes the City of Israel’s God
Isaiah 60:13–14
The splendor of Lebanon shall become yours—
cypresses, pines, and firs together—
to beautify the site of my sanctuary,
to make glorious the place of my feet.
The sons of those who tormented you
will come bowing before you;
all who reviled you will prostrate themselves at your feet.
They will call you the City of Jehovah,
Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
