Isaiah 25:2

The Scriptures 1998

For You shall make a city a heap, a walled city a ruin, a palace of foreigners to be a city no more – never to be rebuilt.

Cross References

Job 12:14

Look, He breaks down, and it is not rebuilt. If He imprisons a man, there is no release.

Isaiah 13:20

“She shall never be inhabited, nor be settled from generation to generation; nor shall the Araḇ

Isaiah 13:21

“But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there, and their houses shall be filled with owls. And ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats frolic there.

Isaiah 13:22

“And hyenas shall cry in their citadels, and jackals in their pleasant palaces. And her time is near to come, and her days are not drawn out.”

Isaiah 14:23

“And I shall make it a possession for the porcupine, and marshes of muddy water; and shall sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares יהוה  of hosts.

Isaiah 17:1

The message concerning Damascus. “See, Damascus ceases to be a city, and shall become a heap of ruins.

Isaiah 17:3

“And the stronghold shall cease from Ephrayim, and the reign from Damascus, and the remnant of Aram be as the esteem of the sons of Yisra’ĕ

Isaiah 21:9

“And see this, a chariot of men coming with a pair of horsemen!” And he spoke up and said, “Baḇ

Isaiah 23:11

He has stretched out His hand over the sea, He shook the reigns; יהוה  has given a command against Kenaʽ

Isaiah 23:13

See the land of the Chaldeans – this people did not exist. Ashshur founded it for wild beasts of the desert. They set up their siege-towers, they demolished her palaces, and made her a ruin.

Isaiah 24:10

The deserted city shall be broken down, every house shall be shut, no one enters.

Isaiah 25:12

And the high stronghold of your walls He shall bring down, lay it low, levelled to the ground, down to the dust.

Isaiah 26:5

“For He shall bring down those who dwell on high. He lays the exalted city low, He lays it low to the earth, He brings it down to the dust.

Isaiah 27:10

For the city of defence is lonely, a home forsaken and left like a wilderness – there the calf feeds, and there it lies down, and shall consume its branches.

Isaiah 32:14

for the palace is abandoned, the crowded city deserted. Hill and watchtower serve as caves forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;

Isaiah 32:19

even when hail shall fall, felling the forest, and the city be brought low in humiliation.

Isaiah 34:13

And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and brambles in its strongholds. And it shall be a home for jackals, a courtyard for ostriches.

Isaiah 37:26

“Have you not heard long ago how I made it, from days of old, that I formed it? Now I have brought it about, that you should be for crushing walled cities into heaps of ruins.

Jeremiah 51:26

“And they shall not take from you a stone for a corner nor a stone for a foundation, but you shall be a waste forever,” declares יהוה.

Jeremiah 9:11

“And I shall make Yerushalayim a heap of ruins, a habitation for jackals; and the cities of Yehuḏ

Deuteronomy 13:16

“And gather all its plunder into the middle of the street, and completely burn with fire the city and all its plunder, before יהוה  your Elohim. And it shall be a heap forever, never to be built again.

Revelation 18:19

“And they threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and mourning, and saying, ‘Woe! Woe, the great city, in which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! For in one hour she was laid waste.’