עִיר עָר עָיַר

Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.

And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.

Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?

For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.

There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.

I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.

They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;

Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?

Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:

A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.

And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.

I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.