Isaiah 25:2

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

For thou hast made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the palace of aliens is a city no more, it will never be rebuilt.

Cross References

Job 12:14

If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.

Isaiah 13:20

It will never be inhabited or dwelt in for all generations; no Arab will pitch his tent there, no shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.

Isaiah 13:21

But wild beasts will lie down there, and its houses will be full of howling creatures; there ostriches will dwell, and there satyrs 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 hedgehog, 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. Behold, 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 Syria will be like the glory of the children of Israel, says the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 21:9

And behold, here come riders, horsemen in pairs!” And he answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the images of her gods he has shattered to 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 strongholds.

Isaiah 23:13

Behold the land of the Chaldeans! This is the people; it was not Assyria. They destined Tyre for wild beasts. They erected their siege towers, they razed her palaces, they made her a ruin.

Isaiah 24:10

The city of chaos is broken down, every house is shut up so that none can enter.

Isaiah 25:12

And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down, lay low, and 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 it low, 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; there the calf grazes, there he lies down, and strips its branches.

Isaiah 32:14

For the palace will be forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

Isaiah 32:19

And the forest will utterly go down, 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 cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

Deuteronomy 13:16

You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square, and burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God; it shall be a heap for ever, it shall not be built again.

Revelation 18:19

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