Isaiah 25:2

Catholic Public Domain Version

For you have appointed a city as a tomb, a strong city for ruination, a house of foreigners: so that it may not be a city, and so that it may not be rebuilt forever.

Cross References

Job 12:14

If he tears down, there is no one who can build up; if he encloses a man, there is no one who can open.

Isaiah 13:20

It will not be inhabited, even unto the end, and it will not be reestablished, even from generation to generation. The Arab will not pitch his tents there, nor will the shepherds take rest there.

Isaiah 13:21

Instead, the wild beasts will rest there, and their houses will be filled with serpents, and ostriches will live there, and the hairy ones will leap about there.

Isaiah 13:22

And the tawny owls will answer one another there, in its buildings, and the Sirens in its shrines of pleasure.

Isaiah 14:23

And I will appoint it as a possession for the hedgehog, with swamps of water. And I will sweep it out and wear it away with a brush, says the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 17:1

The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city, and it will be like a heap of stones in ruin.

Isaiah 17:3

And assistance will cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom will cease from Damascus. And the remnant of Syria will be like the glory of the sons of Israel, says the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 21:9

Behold, a certain man approaches, a man riding on a two-horse chariot." And he responded, and he said: "Fallen, fallen is Babylon! And all its graven gods have been crushed into the earth!

Isaiah 23:11

He has extended his hand over the sea. He has stirred up kingdoms. The Lord has given an order against Canaan, so that he may crush its strong.

Isaiah 23:13

Behold, the land of the Chaldeans: never before was there such a people! Assur founded it. They have led away its strong ones into captivity. They have dug under its houses. They have left it in ruins.

Isaiah 24:10

The city of vanity has been worn away. Every house has been closed up; no one enters.

Isaiah 25:12

And the fortifications of your sublime walls will fall, and be brought low, and be torn down to the ground, even to the dust.

Isaiah 26:5

For he will bend down those living in the heights. He will bring low the lofty city. He will lower it, even to the ground. He will tear it down, even to the dust.

Isaiah 27:10

For the fortified city will be desolate. The shining city will be abandoned and will be left behind like a desert. In that place, the calf will pasture, and in that place, he will lie down, and he will feed from its summits.

Isaiah 32:14

For the house has been forsaken. The multitude of the city has been abandoned. A darkness and a covering have been placed over its dens, even unto eternity. It will be the gladness of wild donkeys and the pasture of flocks,

Isaiah 32:19

But hail will be in the descent of the forest, and the city will be brought exceedingly low.

Isaiah 34:13

And thorns and nettles will rise up in its houses, and the thistle in its fortified places. And it will be the lair of serpents and the pasture of ostriches.

Isaiah 37:26

Have you not heard what I have done to it in past times? In ancient times, I formed it. And now I have brought it forth. And it has been made so that the hills and the fortified cities would fight together, unto its destruction.

Jeremiah 51:26

And they will not take from you a stone for the corner, nor a stone for the foundations. Instead, you will be destroyed unto eternity," says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:11

And I will make Jerusalem into piles of sand and into a lair for serpents. And I will make the cities of Judah desolate, so much so that there will be no inhabitant.

Deuteronomy 13:16

Then all the household goods which are there, you shall gather together in the midst of its streets, and you shall set fire to these, along with the city itself, so that you may consume everything for the Lord your God, and so that it may be an everlasting tomb. It shall no longer be built up.

Revelation 18:19

And they cast dust upon their heads. And they cried out, weeping and mourning, saying: 'Woe! Woe! to that great city, by which all who had ships at sea were made rich from her treasures. For she has been made desolate in one hour.