Some prophecy is in signs, this isn’t. Sounds literal to me.
Jer 31: 38-40 “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when this city will be rebuilt for me from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. 39 The measuring line will stretch from there straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn to Goah. 40 The whole valley where dead bodies and ashes are thrown, and all the terraces out to the Kidron Valley on the east as far as the corner of the Horse Gate, will be holy to the Lord. The city will never again be uprooted or demolished.”
Agree with you completely. It sounds literal...until this:
‘The city will never again be uprooted or demolished.”’
Nothing on this earth is everlasting. Peter reveals that this world will be destroyed by intense heat. The only way the city Jeremiah foresaw could be eternal is if it’s the New Jerusalem spoken of in Revelation.
2 Peter 3:10
[ A New Heaven and Earth ] But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up.