that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over right against Jericho.

where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?

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.