שַׁ֫עַר

The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and bless His name.

They loathed all food and drew near to the gates of death.

Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter and give thanks to the LORD.

This is the gate of the LORD; the righteous shall enter through it.

Our feet are standing in your gates, O Jerusalem.

Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. He will not be put to shame when he confronts the enemies at the gate.

For He strengthens the bars of your gates and blesses the children within you.

…in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:

Beside the gates to the city, at the entrances she cries out:

The evil bow before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,

Wisdom is too high for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the meeting place.

Her husband is known at the city gates, where he sits among the elders of the land.

Give her the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her at the gates.

Your neck is like a tower made of ivory; your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, facing toward Damascus.

Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! Melt away, all you Philistines! For a cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there are no stragglers in its ranks.

Your choicest valleys are full of chariots, and horsemen are posted at the gates.

The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.

Open the gates so a righteous nation may enter—one that remains faithful.

…a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and a strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate.

…those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice.

I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”

This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:

I will make your pinnacles of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.

Your gates will always stand open; they will never be shut, day or night, so that the wealth of the nations may be brought into you, with their kings being led in procession.

No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.

Go out, go out through the gates; prepare the way for the people! Build it up, build up the highway; clear away the stones; raise a banner for the nations!

For I am about to summon all the clans and kingdoms of the north,” declares the LORD. “Their kings will come and set up their thrones at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem. They will attack all her surrounding walls and all the other cities of Judah.

“Stand in the gate of the house of the LORD and proclaim this message: Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the LORD.

“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.

I will scatter them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land. I will bereave and destroy My people who have not turned from their ways.

This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and stand at the gate of the people, through which the kings of Judah go in and out; and stand at all the other gates of Jerusalem.

Say to them, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, all people of Judah and Jerusalem who enter through these gates.

This is what the LORD says: Take heed for yourselves; do not carry a load or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.

If, however, you listen carefully to Me, says the LORD, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and keep the Sabbath day holy, and do no work on it,

…then kings and princes will enter through the gates of this city. They will sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses with their officials, along with the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited forever.

But if you do not listen to Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in its gates to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.’”

…and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you,

…he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.

…saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David—you and your officials and your people who enter these gates.

For if you will indeed carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David’s throne will enter through the gates of this palace riding on chariots and horses—they and their officials and their people.

He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.

When the officials of Judah heard these things, they went up from the king’s palace to the house of the LORD and sat there at the entrance of the New Gate.

“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when this city will be rebuilt for Me, from the tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.

The whole valley of the dead bodies and ashes, and all the fields as far as the Kidron Valley, to the corner of the Horse Gate to the east, will be holy to the LORD. It will never again be uprooted or demolished.”

From the chamber of Gemariah son of Shaphan the scribe, which was in the upper courtyard at the opening of the New Gate of the house of the LORD, Baruch read from the scroll the words of Jeremiah in the hearing of all the people.