Isaiah 25:2

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

You have destroyed the fortress of our enemies, leaving their city in ruins. Nothing in that foreign city will ever be rebuilt.

Cross References

Job 12:14

No one can rebuild what he destroys, or release those he has imprisoned.

Isaiah 13:20

No one will live in Babylon. Even nomads won't camp nearby, and shepherds won't let their sheep rest there.

Isaiah 13:21

Only desert creatures, owls, and ostriches will live in its ruins, and goats will leap about.

Isaiah 13:22

Hyenas and wolves will howl from Babylon's fortresses and beautiful palaces. Its time is almost up!

Isaiah 14:23

The LORD will sweep out the people, and the land will become a swamp for wild animals.

Isaiah 17:1

This is a message about Damascus: Damascus is doomed! It will end up in ruins.

Isaiah 17:3

Israel will lose its fortresses. The kingdom of Damascus will be destroyed; its survivors will suffer the same fate as Israel. The LORD All-Powerful has promised this.

Isaiah 21:9

Now I see column after column of cavalry troops.” Straight away someone shouted, “Babylon has fallen! Every idol in the city lies broken on the ground.”

Isaiah 23:11

The LORD's hand has reached across the sea, upsetting the nations. He has given a command to destroy fortresses in the land of Canaan.

Isaiah 23:13

Look what the Assyrians have done to Babylonia! They have attacked, destroying every palace in the land. Now wild animals live among the ruins.

Isaiah 24:10

Towns are crushed and in chaos; houses are locked tight.

Isaiah 25:12

The walls of their fortresses will be knocked down and scattered in the dust.

Isaiah 26:5

God has put down our enemies in their mountain city and rubbed it in the dust.

Isaiah 27:10

Fortress cities are left like a desert where no one lives. Cattle walk through the ruins, stripping the trees bare.

Isaiah 32:14

The palace will be deserted, the crowded city empty. Fortresses and towers will for ever become playgrounds for wild donkeys and pastures for sheep.

Isaiah 32:19

even if hailstones flatten forests and cities.

Isaiah 34:13

Its palaces and fortresses will be covered with thorns; only wolves and ostriches will make their home there.

Isaiah 37:26

Sennacherib, now listen to me, the LORD. I planned all this long ago. And you don't even know that I alone am the one who decided that you would do these things. I let you make ruins of fortified cities.

Jeremiah 51:26

Your stone blocks won't be reused for cornerstones or foundations, and I promise that for ever you will be a desert. I, the LORD, have spoken.

Jeremiah 9:11

I heard the LORD reply, “When I have finished, Jerusalem and the towns of Judah will be piles of ruins where only jackals live.”

Deuteronomy 13:16

Gather all the possessions of the people who lived there, and pile them up in the market place, without keeping anything for yourself. Set the pile and the whole town on fire, and don't ever rebuild the town. The whole town will be a sacrifice to the LORD your God. Then he won't be angry any more, and he will have mercy on you and make you successful, just as he promised your ancestors.

Revelation 18:19

They cried loudly, and in their sorrow they threw dust on their heads, as they said, “Pity the great city of Babylon! Everyone who sailed the seas became rich from her treasures. But in a single hour the city was destroyed.