Isaiah 25:2
For you have made cities a heap, even cities made strong that their foundations should not fall: the city of ungodly men shall not be built for ever.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
3Therefore shall the poor people bless you, and cities of injured men shall bless you.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 13:16And all its spoils you shall gather into its public ways, and you shall burn the city with fire, and all its spoils publicly before the Lord your God; and it shall be uninhabited for ever, it shall not be built again.
Isaiah 13:21But wild beasts shall rest there; and the houses shall be filled with howling; and + 13:21 See Job 30:29; Isa 34:13, etc. monsters shall rest there, and devils shall dance there, and satyrs shall dwell there; and hedgehogs shall make their nests in their houses. + 13:21 See Heb 10.37; Hab 2.3 It will come soon, and will not wait.
Isaiah 14:23And I will make the region of Babylon desert, so that hedgehogs shall dwell there, and it shall come to nothing: and I will make it a pit of clay for destruction.
Isaiah 17:3And she shall no longer be a strong place for Ephraim to flee to, and there shall no longer be a kingdom in Damascus, or a remnant of Syrians; for you are no better than the children of Israel, even than their glory; thus says the Lord of hosts.
Isaiah 23:13And if you depart to the land of the Chaldeans, this also is laid waste by the Assyrians, for her wall is fallen.
Isaiah 25:12And he shall bring down the height of the refuge of the wall, and it shall come down even to the ground.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 25:2-6
A Song of Praise. ( b. c. 718.) 1 O Lord , thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. 2 For thou hast made of a city a heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. 3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee. 4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the… Read the whole commentary →