Therefore it was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth, and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
Isaiah 24:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The city of chaos is broken down; every house is shut up so that no one can enter. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The wasted city of emptiness and confusion is broken down; every house is shut up so that no one may enter. American Standard Version (1901) The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in. Common English Bible The town is in chaos, broken; every house is shut, without entrance. Catholic Public Domain Version The city of vanity has been worn away. Every house has been closed up; no one enters. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The city of vanity is broken down: every house is shut up: no man cometh in. |
Therefore it was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth, and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
Then a breach was made in the city wall; the king with all the soldiers fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the King’s Garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. They went in the direction of the Arabah.
The oracle concerning Tyre. Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your fortress is destroyed. When they came in from Cyprus they learned of it.
For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the palace of foreigners is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.
For he has brought low the inhabitants of the height; the lofty city he lays low. He lays it low to the ground, casts it to the dust.
For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; the calves graze there; there they lie down and strip its branches.
For the palace will be forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens forever, the joy of wild asses, a pasture for flocks;
The forest will disappear completely, and the city will be utterly laid low.
But the desert owl and the screech owl shall possess it; the great owl and the raven shall live in it. He shall stretch the line of confusion and the plummet of chaos over it.
When King Zedekiah of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled, going out of the city at night by way of the King’s Garden through the gate between the two walls, and they went toward the Arabah.
The Chaldeans burned with fire the king’s house and the houses of the people and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
Then a breach was made in the city wall, and all the soldiers fled and went out from the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the King’s Garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. They went in the direction of the Arabah.
The one who breaks out will go up before them; they will break through and pass the gate, going out by it. Their king will pass on before them, the Lord at their head.
Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple a wooded height.
Indeed, the days will come upon you when your enemies will set up ramparts around you and surround you and hem you in on every side.
they will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken away as captives among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the nations, until the times of the nations are fulfilled.
He called out with a mighty voice, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! It has become a dwelling place of demons, a haunt of every foul spirit, a haunt of every foul bird, a haunt of every foul and hateful beast.