Isaiah 37:33

37:33 So this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria:

‘He will not enter this city,

nor will he shoot an arrow here. ¹ 

He will not attack it with his shielded warriors, ² 

nor will he build siege works against it.

Isaiah 54:2

54:2 Make your tent larger,

stretch your tent curtains farther out! ³ 

Spare no effort,

lengthen your ropes,

and pound your stakes deep. ⁴ 

Ezekiel 48:35

48:35 The circumference of the city will be six miles. ⁵  The name of the city from that day forward will be: ‘The Lord Is There.’” ⁶ 

Matthew 16:18

16:18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades ⁷  will not overpower it.

Revelation 3:12

3:12 The one who conquers ⁸  I will make ⁹  a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never depart from it. I ¹⁰  will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from my God), ¹¹  and my new name as well.

¹ tn Heb “there” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV). In terms of English style “here” is expected in collocation with “this” in the previous line.

² tn Heb “[with] a shield” (so ASV, NASB, NRSV).

³ tn Heb “the curtains of our dwelling places let them stretch out.”

⁴ tn Heb “your stakes strengthen.”

⁵ tn Heb “eighteen thousand cubits” (i.e., 9.45 kilometers).

⁶ sn See Rev 21:12-21.

⁷ tn Or “and the power of death” (taking the reference to the gates of Hades as a metonymy).

⁸ tn Or “who is victorious”; traditionally, “who overcomes.”

⁹ tn Grk “I will make him,” but the pronoun (αὐτόν, auton, “him”) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated here.

¹⁰ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

¹¹ sn This description of the city of my God is parenthetical, explaining further the previous phrase and interrupting the list of “new names” given here.