Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

General references

Bible References

The palaces

Isaiah 5:9

In my ears the Lord of hosts said, “Be assured that many houses will become desolate,
Even great and beautiful ones will be unoccupied.
Isaiah 24:1
Behold, the Lord lays waste to the earth, devastates it, twists and distorts its face and scatters its inhabitants.
Isaiah 25:2

For You have made a city into a heap [of trash],
A fortified city into a ruin;
A palace of foreigners is no longer a city,
It will never be rebuilt.
Isaiah 27:10

For the fortified city is isolated,
A settlement deserted and abandoned like the desert;
There the calf will graze,
And there it will lie down and feed on its branches.
2 Kings 25:9
He burned the house (temple) of the Lord, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.
Luke 21:20
“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by [hostile] armies, then understand [with confident assurance] that her complete destruction is near.

For

Isaiah 13:19

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride,
Will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.
Isaiah 34:11

But the pelican and the porcupine will take possession of it;
The owl and the raven will dwell in it.
And He will stretch over it (Edom) the measuring line of desolation
And the plumb line of emptiness.
Revelation 18:2
And he shouted with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen [certainly to be destroyed] is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a dungeon haunted by every unclean spirit, and a prison for every unclean and loathsome bird.

General references

Isaiah 24:12

Horrible desolation is left in the city,
And the gate is battered into ruins.
Jeremiah 25:37

“And the peaceful folds are devastated and made silent
Because of the fierce anger of the Lord.