Isaiah 26:5

Modern English Version

For He brings down those who dwell on high, the lofty city; He lays it low; He lays it low, even to the ground; He brings it even to the dust.

Cross References

Psalm 79:8

Do not remember against us the iniquities of our forefathers; let Your tender mercies come speedily to us, for we have been brought very low.

Isaiah 13:11

I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the ruthless.

Isaiah 14:13

For you have said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit also on the mount of the congregation, in the recesses of the north;

Isaiah 2:12

For the day of the Lord of Hosts shall be upon everything that is proud and lofty, and upon everything that is lifted up, and it shall be brought low;

Isaiah 24:10

The city of confusion is broken down; every house is shut up so that no one may come in.

Isaiah 25:2

For You have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin; a palace of strangers is a city no longer; it shall never be built.

Isaiah 32:19

and it shall hail when the forest comes down, and the city shall be utterly laid low.

Isaiah 47:1

Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground; there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans. For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.

Jeremiah 51:37

Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 51:64

and say, ‘Thus Babylon will sink and not rise from the disaster that I will bring upon her, and they will become weary.’ ” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord has swallowed up without mercy all the habitations of Jacob; in His wrath He has thrown down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

Ezekiel 26:11

With the hoofs of his horses he shall tread down all your streets. He shall slay your people by the sword, and your strong garrisons shall go down to the ground.

Ezekiel 28:17

Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness; I cast you to the ground, I lay you before kings, that they may see you.

Revelation 18:2

He cried out mightily with a loud voice, saying: “ ‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!’ She has become a dwelling place of demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, and a haunt for every unclean and hateful bird.