Isaiah 25:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

For you have turned the city into a pile of rocks, a fortified city into ruins; the fortress of barbarians  is no longer a city; it will never be rebuilt.

Cross References

Isaiah 17:1

A pronouncement  concerning Damascus: Look, Damascus is no longer a city. It has become a ruined heap.

Isaiah 13:22

Hyenas will howl in the fortresses, and jackals in the luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is almost up; her days are almost over.

Isaiah 25:12

The high-walled fortress will be brought down, thrown to the ground, to the dust.

Revelation 18:19

They threw dust on their heads and kept crying out, weeping, and mourning, Woe, woe, the great city, where all those who have ships on the sea became rich from her wealth; for in a single hour she was destroyed.

Jeremiah 51:26

No one will be able to retrieve a cornerstone or a foundation stone from you, because you will become desolate for ever. This is the  Lord’s declaration.

Isaiah 23:13

Look at the land of the Chaldeans – a people who no longer exist. Assyria destined it for desert creatures. They set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They made it a ruin.

Isaiah 21:9

Look, riders come – horsemen in pairs.’ And he answered, saying, ‘Babylon has fallen,  has fallen. All the images of her gods have been shattered on the ground.’

Isaiah 14:23

‘I will make her a swampland and a region for herons,  and I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction.’ This is the declaration of the  Lord of Armies.

Deuteronomy 13:16

You are to gather all its spoil in the middle of the city square and completely burn the city and all its spoil for the Lord your God. The city is to remain a mound of ruins for ever;  it is not to be rebuilt.

Isaiah 17:3

The fortress disappears from Ephraim, and a kingdom from Damascus. The remnant of Aram will be like the splendour of the Israelites. This is the declaration of the  Lord of Armies.

Job 12:14

Whatever he tears down cannot be rebuilt; whoever he imprisons cannot be released.

Isaiah 23:11

He stretched out his hand over the sea; he made kingdoms tremble. The Lord has commanded that the Canaanite fortresses be destroyed.

Isaiah 26:5

For he has humbled those who live in lofty places – an inaccessible city. He brings it down; he brings it down to the ground; he throws it to the dust.

Isaiah 27:10

For the fortified city will be desolate, pastures deserted and abandoned like a wilderness. Calves will graze there, and there they will spread out and strip its branches.

Isaiah 32:14

For the palace will be deserted, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become barren places for ever, the joy of wild donkeys, and a pasture for flocks,

Isaiah 32:19

But hail will level the forest,  , and the city will sink into the depths.

Isaiah 34:13

Her palaces will be overgrown with thorns; her fortified cities, with thistles and briars. She will become a dwelling for jackals, an abode  for ostriches.

Isaiah 37:26

Have you not heard? I designed it long ago; I planned it in days gone by. I have now brought it to pass, and you have crushed fortified cities into piles of rubble.

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a jackals’ den. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, an uninhabited place.

Isaiah 13:20

It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation; a nomad will not pitch his tent there, and shepherds will not let their flocks rest there.

Isaiah 13:21

But desert creatures will lie down there, and owls will fill the houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.

Isaiah 24:10

The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.