Isaiah 25:2

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.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The 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.

In Context

1O Yahweh! my God, thou art, I will exalt thee, I will praise thy Name, For thou hast done a wonderful thing,—Purposes of long ago Faithfulness in truth.

3For this cause! shall glorify thee—a strong people, the city of tyrannous nations shall revere thee;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 13:16and all the spoil thereof, shalt thou gather together into the midst of the broadway thereof, and shalt consume with fire the city and all the spoil thereof, every whit, unto Yahweh thy God,—and it shall be a heap unto times age-abiding, it shall be built no more.

Isaiah 13:21Then shall lie down there, wild beasts, And filled shall be their houses with owls,—Then shall inhabit there, the ostrich, And shaggy creatures, shall dance there.

Isaiah 14:23And will make her a possession for the bittern, And marshes of water,—And will sweep it with the besom of destruction, Declareth Yahweh of hosts.

Isaiah 17:3Then shall the fortress cease from Ephraim, And the kingdom from Damascus and the remnant of Syria,—Like the glory of the sons of Israel, shall they be,—Declareth Yahweh of hosts.

Isaiah 23:13Lo! the land of the Chaldeans, This is the people that was not, Assyria, founded it for the inhabitants of the desert,—They set up its siege-towers, They demolished its palaces Made it a ruin!

Isaiah 25:12Yea, the lofty stronghold of thy walls, Hath he brought down—Laid low—Levelled to the ground even unto 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 →

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