Isaiah 25:2
For you have made the city a heap, a fortified city, a ruin, 1 and a fortress of strangers into no city. 1
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3Therefore a strong people will glorify you; a city of ruthless nations will fear you. 1
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Deuteronomy 13:16You will gather all the spoil from it into the middle of its street and will burn the city, as well as all its spoil—for Yahweh your God. The city will be a heap of ruins forever; it must never be built again.
Isaiah 13:21But wild animals of the desert will lie there. Their houses will be full of owls; 1 and ostriches and wild goats will skip about there. 1
Isaiah 14:23“I will also make her into a possession of owls, and into pools of water, 1 and I will sweep her with the broom of destruction”—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts. 1
Isaiah 17:3Fortified cities will disappear from Ephraim, the kingdom from Damascus, 1 and the remnant of Aram—they will be like the glory of the people of Israel—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts. 1
Isaiah 23:13See the land of the Chaldeans. This people has ceased to be; the Assyrians have made it a wilderness for wild animals. 1 They set up their siege towers; they demolished its palaces; they made it a heap of ruins. 1
Isaiah 25:12Your high fortress walls he will bring down to the ground, to the dust.
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 →