Isaiah 25:2

Tree of Life Version

For You have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a foreigner’s palace a city no more— never to be rebuilt.

Cross References

Isaiah 17:1

The burden of Damascus: Behold, Damascus will cease as a city and will become a ruinous heap.

Isaiah 13:22

Hyenas will howl in their citadels and jackals in their pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come— her days will not drag on long.

Isaiah 25:12

He will level your high-fortified walls, lay them low, and cast them down to the ground, down to dust.

Revelation 18:19

And they threw dust on their heads and were crying out, weeping and mourning, “Alas, alas, O great city— in her all who had ships at sea grew rich from her wealth! For in a single hour has she been ruined!

Jeremiah 51:26

They will not even take from you a cornerstone or foundation stone, for you will be desolate forever.” It is a declaration of Adonai.

Isaiah 23:13

Look, the land of the Chaldeans— this is the people who no longer exist. Assyria set it up for desert animals. They set up their siege towers; they stripped its palaces; they made it a ruin.

Isaiah 21:9

Look! Here comes a chariot of men, with a pair of horsemen.” Then one answered and said, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods are broken on the ground.”

Isaiah 14:23

“I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, with marshes of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction.” It is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot.

Deuteronomy 13:16

you will surely strike down the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it and all that is in it and its livestock with the sword.

Isaiah 17:3

The fortress will also cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus. The remnant of Aram will be like the glory of Bnei-Yisrael. It is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot.

Job 12:14

If He tears down, it cannot be rebuilt; one He imprisons cannot be released.

Isaiah 23:11

His hand has stretched out over the sea, He has shaken the kingdoms. Adonai has given a commandment concerning Canaan, to destroy its strongholds.

Isaiah 26:5

For He humbles those dwelling on high, leveling the lofty city, leveling it to the ground, bringing it down to the dust.

Isaiah 27:10

The fortified city is a lonely habitation, forlorn and forsaken like the desert. There the calf will graze, there lie down and consume its branches.

Isaiah 32:14

For the palace will be abandoned; the bustling city will be deserted; the citadel and watchtower will become a wasteland forever, a delight of wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks,

Isaiah 32:19

Then hail will flatten the forest; and the city will be utterly laid low.

Isaiah 34:13

Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It will be a haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.

Isaiah 37:26

Have you not heard? I did it long ago! From ancient times I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass— that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of rubble.

Jeremiah 9:11

Who is the one wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of Adonai spoken that he may explain it? Why is the land ruined, laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?”

Isaiah 13:20

It will never be inhabited, nor will it be dwelt in from generation to generation, nor will an Arab pitch a tent there, nor will shepherds let flocks lie there.

Isaiah 13:21

But desert creatures will lie there. Their houses will be full of owls. Ostriches will dwell there, and goat-demons will dance there.

Isaiah 24:10

The shattered city is in chaos. Every house is shut up, none may enter.