94 Bible Verses about Woe To Jerusalem

Luke 11:42 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Matthew 23:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Zechariah 11:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Woe to my worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye! Let his arm be wholly withered, his right eye utterly blinded!”

Amos 5:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord! Why would you have the day of the Lord? It is darkness, and not light,

Joel 3:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,

Joel 3:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,

Ezekiel 34:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord God: Ah, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep?

Ezekiel 16:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! declares the Lord God),

Jeremiah 23:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 13:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd whorings, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?”

Luke 11:46 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

Luke 6:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.

Luke 6:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Woe to you who are full now, for you shall be hungry. “Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.

Luke 6:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation.

Mark 13:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days!

Matthew 24:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days!

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ...

Matthew 23:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.

Matthew 23:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.

Matthew 11:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Amos 6:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who feel secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel comes!

Joel 3:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

Hosea 9:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them!

Hosea 7:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.

Ezekiel 38:1-39:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him and say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. And I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great host, all of them with buckler and shield, wielding swords. Persia, Cush, and Put are with them, all of them with shield and helmet; ...

Ezekiel 36:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.

Ezekiel 24:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.

Ezekiel 24:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Therefore thus says the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose corrosion is in it, and whose corrosion has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece, without making any choice.

Jeremiah 30:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Alas! That day is so great there is none like it; it is a time of distress for Jacob; yet he shall be saved out of it.

Isaiah 30:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Ah, stubborn children,” declares the Lord, “who carry out a plan, but not mine, and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin;

Genesis 12:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

Revelation 12:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!”

Revelation 11:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The second woe has passed; behold, the third woe is soon to come.

Revelation 9:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Jude 1:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Woe to them! For they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam's error and perished in Korah's rebellion.

1 Corinthians 9:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

Romans 11:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written, “The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”;

Luke 22:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the Son of Man goes as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!”

Luke 21:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Luke 21:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress upon the earth and wrath against this people.

Luke 11:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without knowing it.”

Luke 11:43 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.

Luke 10:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

Matthew 26:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”

Matthew 23:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,

Matthew 23:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness.

Matthew 23:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

Matthew 23:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’

Matthew 23:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 23:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, ...

Matthew 18:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes!

Zechariah 14:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

Zechariah 13:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In the whole land, declares the Lord, two thirds shall be cut off and perish, and one third shall be left alive. And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people’; and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”

Zephaniah 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, the oppressing city!

Zephaniah 2:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast, you nation of the Cherethites! The word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; and I will destroy you until no inhabitant is left.

Habakkuk 2:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, Awake; to a silent stone, Arise! Can this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in it.

Habakkuk 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink— you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!

Habakkuk 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Woe to him who builds a town with blood and founds a city on iniquity!

Habakkuk 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm!

Habakkuk 2:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say, “Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own— for how long?— and loads himself with pledges!”

Nahum 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Woe to the bloody city, all full of lies and plunder— no end to the prey!

Micah 7:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the grapes have been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig that my soul desires.

Micah 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Joel 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily.

Joel 3:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land, and have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it. “What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily. For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples. ...

Daniel 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book.

Daniel 9:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”

Ezekiel 38:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him and say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. And I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great host, all of them with buckler and shield, wielding swords. Persia, Cush, and Put are with them, all of them with shield and helmet; ...

Ezekiel 37:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and bring them to their own land.

Ezekiel 34:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord God: Ah, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep? You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep. The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them. So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the wild beasts. My sheep were scattered; ...

Ezekiel 30:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God: “Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’

Ezekiel 13:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And say, Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the women who sew magic bands upon all wrists, and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature, in the hunt for souls! Will you hunt down souls belonging to my people and keep your own souls alive?

Ezekiel 13:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Thus says the Lord God, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

Ezekiel 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he spread it before me. And it had writing on the front and on the back, and there were written on it words of lamentation and mourning and woe.

Jeremiah 22:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages,

Isaiah 66:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment? For as soon as Zion was in labor she brought forth her children.

Isaiah 45:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’ or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’”

Isaiah 43:5-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you. I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth,

Isaiah 30:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Ah, stubborn children,” declares the Lord, “who carry out a plan, but not mine, and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin; who set out to go down to Egypt, without asking for my direction, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt! Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation. For though his officials are at Zoan and his envoys reach Hanes, everyone comes to shame through a people that cannot profit them, that brings neither help nor profit, but shame and disgrace.” ...

Isaiah 29:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in his midst, they will sanctify my name; they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

Isaiah 29:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ah, you who hide deep from the Lord your counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”

Isaiah 29:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ah, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts run their round.

Isaiah 29:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ah, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts run their round. Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be moaning and lamentation, and she shall be to me like an Ariel. And I will encamp against you all around, and will besiege you with towers and I will raise siegeworks against you. And you will be brought low; from the earth you shall speak, and from the dust your speech will be bowed down; your voice shall come from the ground like the voice of a ghost, and from the dust your speech shall whisper. But the multitude of your foreign foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the ruthless like passing chaff. And in an instant, suddenly, ...

Isaiah 28:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ah, the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine! Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong; like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest, like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters, he casts down to the earth with his hand. The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden underfoot; and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley, will be like a first-ripe fig before the summer: when someone sees it, he swallows it as soon as it is in his hand. In that day the Lord of hosts will be a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people, ...

Isaiah 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves.

Isaiah 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,

Proverbs 3:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.

Psalm 122:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! “May they be secure who love you!

Psalm 83:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A Song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, do not keep silence; do not hold your peace or be still, O God! For behold, your enemies make an uproar; those who hate you have raised their heads. They lay crafty plans against your people; they consult together against your treasured ones. They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!” For they conspire with one accord; against you they make a covenant— ...

Numbers 18:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service that they do, their service in the tent of meeting,

Genesis 28:20-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, so that I come again to my father's house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God, and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house. And of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you.”

Genesis 27:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you!”

Genesis 12:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”