Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
For Thou didst make of a city a heap, Of a fenced city a ruin, A high place of strangers from being a city, To the age it is not built.
New American Standard Bible
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It will never be rebuilt.
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
a fortified city, into ruins;
the fortress of barbarians
it will never be rebuilt.
International Standard Version
For you have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified city into a ruin; the foreigners' citadel is no longer a city it will never be rebuilt!
A Conservative Version
For thou have made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It shall never be built.
American Standard Version
For thou hast made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
Amplified
For You have made a city into a heap [of trash],
A fortified city into a ruin;
A palace of
It will never be rebuilt.
Bible in Basic English
For you have made a town a waste place: a strong town a mass of broken walls; the tower of the men of pride has come to an end; it will never be put up again.
Darby Translation
For thou hast made of the city a heap, of the fortified town a ruin, the palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built up.
Julia Smith Translation
For thou didst set from a city to a heap, a fortified city to ruins: a palace of strangers from a city; it shall not be built forever.
King James 2000
For you have made of a city a heap; of a fortified city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For you have {made} [the] city heap, [the] fortified city a ruin, [the] palace of foreigners {is no longer} a city; it will {never} be rebuilt.
Modern King James verseion
For You have made a heap from a city; a fortified city into a ruin; a citadel of foreigners to be no city; it shall never be built.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou makest of towns, heaps of stone; and of head
NET Bible
Indeed, you have made the city into a heap of rubble, the fortified town into a heap of ruins; the fortress of foreigners is no longer a city, it will never be rebuilt.
New Heart English Bible
For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.
The Emphasized Bible
For thou hast made, of a citadel, a mound, of a defenced city, a ruin, - palaces for foreigners to be no city, To times age-abiding, shall it not be built.
Webster
For thou hast made of a city a heap; of a fortified city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
World English Bible
For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.
Themes
Cities » Were frequently » Made heaps of ruins
Fear » Who shall fear the lord
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 25:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise For Salvation
1 O Jehovah, my God art Thou, I exalt Thee, I confess Thy name, For Thou hast done a wonderful thing, Counsels of old, stedfastness, O stedfast One. 2 For Thou didst make of a city a heap, Of a fenced city a ruin, A high place of strangers from being a city, To the age it is not built. 3 Therefore honour Thee do a strong people, A city of the terrible nations feareth Thee.
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Cross References
Isaiah 17:1
The burden of Damascus. Lo, Damascus is taken away from being a city, And it hath been a heap -- a ruin.
Isaiah 13:22
And Aiim have responded in his forsaken habitations, And dragons in palaces of delight, And near to come is her time, And her days are not drawn out!
Isaiah 25:12
And the fortress of the high place of thy walls He hath bowed down -- He hath made low, He hath caused it to come to the earth, -- unto dust.
Deuteronomy 13:16
and all its spoil thou dost gather unto the midst of its broad place, and hast burned with fire the city and all its spoil completely, before Jehovah thy God, and it hath been a heap age-during, it is not built any more;
Isaiah 14:23
And have made it for a possession of a bittern, And ponds of waters, And daubed it with the mire of destruction, The affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts!
Isaiah 17:3
And ceased hath the fortress from Ephraim, And the kingdom from Damascus, And the remnant of Aram are as the honour of the sons of Israel, The affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts!
Isaiah 21:9
And lo, this, the chariot of a man is coming, A couple of horsemen.' And he answereth and saith: 'Fallen, fallen hath Babylon, And all the graven images of her gods He hath broken to the earth.
Isaiah 23:13
Lo, the land of the Chaldeans -- this people was not, Asshur founded it for the Ziim, They raised its watch-towers, They lifted up her palaces, -- He hath appointed her for a ruin!
Jeremiah 51:26
And they take not out of thee a stone for a corner, And a stone for foundations, For desolations age-during art thou, An affirmation of Jehovah.
Nahum 3:12-15
All thy fortresses are fig-trees with first-fruits, If they are shaken, They have fallen into the mouth of the eater.
Revelation 18:2-3
and he did cry in might -- a great voice, saying, 'Fall, fall did Babylon the great, and she became a habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hateful bird,
Revelation 18:19
and they did cast dust upon their heads, and were crying out, weeping and sorrowing, saying, Woe, woe, the great city! in which were made rich all having ships in the sea, out of her costliness -- for in one hour was she made waste.