How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy! Treasury of Scripture Jeremiah 33:9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honor before all the nations of the earth... Jeremiah 48:2,39 There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation... Jeremiah 51:41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations! Psalm 37:35,36 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree... Isaiah 1:26 And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counsellors as at the beginning: afterward you shall be called... Isaiah 14:4-6 That you shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!... Daniel 4:30 The king spoke, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power... Revelation 18:10,16-19 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon...
Context The Judgment on Damascus
23Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet. 24Damascus is waxed feeble, and turns herself to flee, and fear has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail. 25How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy! 26Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, said the LORD of hosts. 27And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?
Douay-Rheims Bible
How have they forsaken the city of renown, the city of joy !
Darby Bible Translation
How is not the town of praise forsaken, the city of my joy!
King James Bible
How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
Young's Literal Translation
How is it not left -- the city of praise, The city of my joy!
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