Isaiah 25:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

Job 12:14

If he tears down, no one can rebuild; if he shuts someone in, no one can open up.

Isaiah 13:20

It will never be inhabited or lived in for all generations; Arabs will not pitch their tents there; shepherds will not make their flocks lie down there.

Isaiah 13:21

But wild animals will lie down there, and its houses will be full of howling creatures; there ostriches will live, and there goat-demons will dance.

Isaiah 13:22

Hyenas will cry in its towers and jackals in the pleasant palaces; its time is close at hand; and its days will not be prolonged.

Isaiah 14:23

And I will make it a possession of the screech owl and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 17:1

An oracle concerning Damascus. See, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins.

Isaiah 17:3

The fortress will disappear from Ephraim and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the people of Israel, says the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 21:9

Look, there they come, riders, horsemen in pairs!” Then he responded, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon, and all the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground.”

Isaiah 23:11

He has stretched out his hand over the sea; he has shaken the kingdoms; the Lord has given command concerning Canaan, to destroy its fortresses.

Isaiah 23:13

Look at the land of the Chaldeans! This is the people; it was not Assyria. They destined it for wild animals. They erected their siege towers; they tore down her palaces; they made her a ruin.

Isaiah 24:10

The city of chaos is broken down; every house is shut up so that no one can enter.

Isaiah 25:12

The high fortifications of his walls will be brought down, laid low, cast to the ground, even to the dust.

Isaiah 26:5

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.

Isaiah 27:10

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.

Isaiah 32:14

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;

Isaiah 32:19

The forest will disappear completely, and the city will be utterly laid low.

Isaiah 34:13

Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.

Isaiah 37:26

“Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should make fortified cities crash into heaps of ruins,

Jeremiah 51:26

No stone shall be taken from you for a corner and no stone for a foundation, but you shall be a perpetual waste, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the towns of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

Deuteronomy 13:16

All of its spoil you shall gather into its public square, then burn the town and all its spoil with fire as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It shall remain a perpetual ruin, never to be rebuilt.

Revelation 18:19

And they threw dust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out, “Alas, alas, the great city, where all who had ships at sea grew rich by her wealth! For in one hour she has been laid waste.”