Isaiah 25:2

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Summary

For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

For

Palace

Isaiah 13:22

Revelation 18:2

Bible References

For

The unassailable fortifications of your walls He will bring down,
Lay low and cast to the ground, even to the dust.

“I will also make it a possession for the hedgehog and swamps of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts.

The

oracle concerning Damascus.

“Behold, Damascus is about to be removed from being a city
And will become a fallen ruin.

“Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs.”
And one said, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
And all the images of her gods are shattered on the ground.”

Behold, the land of the Chaldeans—this is the people which was not; Assyria appointed it for desert creatures—they erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, they made it a ruin.

Then you shall gather all its booty into the middle of its open square and burn the city and all its booty with fire as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God; and it shall be a

ruin forever. It shall never be rebuilt.

“They will not take from you even a stone for a corner
Nor a stone for foundations,
But you will be desolate forever,” declares the Lord.

All your fortifications are fig trees with

ripe fruit—

When shaken, they fall into the eater’s mouth.

Palace

Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers

And jackals in their luxurious palaces.
Her fateful time also will soon come
And her days will not be prolonged.

And he cried out with a mighty voice, saying, “

Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird.