Isaiah 2:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And on every high tower, and on every strong wall;

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  • Isa 25:12 : 12 And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.

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  • Isa 2:12-14
    3 verses
    88%

    12 For the day of the Lord of armies is coming on all the pride of men, and on all who are high and lifted up;

    13 And on all the high trees of Lebanon, and on all the strong trees of Bashan;

    14 And on all the high mountains, and on all the hills which are lifted up;

  • 16 And on all the ships of Tarshish, and on all the fair boats.

  • 16 A day of sounding the horn and the war-cry against the walled towns and the high towers.

  • 25 And there will be rivers and streams of water on every tall mountain and on every high hill, in the day when great numbers are put to the sword, when the towers come down.

  • 12 And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.

  • Ps 148:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9 Mountains and all hills; fruit-trees and all trees of the mountains:

    10 Beasts and all cattle; insects and winged birds:

  • 5 The war-carriages are rushing through the streets, pushing against one another in the wide ways, looking like burning lights, running like thunder-flames.

  • 9 He will put up his engines of war against your walls, and your towers will be broken down by his axes.

  • Ps 48:12-13
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    73%

    12 Make your way about Zion, and go round it, numbering its towers.

    13 Take note of its strong walls, looking well at its fair buildings; so that you may give word of it to the generation which comes after.

  • 2 And make an attack on it, shutting it in, building strong places against it, and making high an earthwork against it; and put up tents against it, placing engines all round it for smashing down its walls.

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    16 And the sloping windows and the covered ways round all three of them were of shakiph-wood all round from the level of the earth up to the windows;

    17 And there was a roof over the doorway and as far as the inner house, and to the outside and on the wall all round, inside and outside.

  • 1 See on the mountains the feet of him who comes with good news, giving word of peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, give effect to your oaths: for the good-for-nothing man will never again go through you; he is completely cut off.

  • 24 That you made for yourself an arched room in every open place.

  • 10 By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.

  • 1 The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?

  • 18 For see, this day have I made you a walled town, and an iron pillar, and walls of brass, against all the land, against the kings of Judah, against its captains, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

  • 9 They make a rush on the town, running on the wall; they go up into the houses and in through the windows like a thief.

  • 4 And they will give the walls of Tyre to destruction and have its towers broken: and I will take even her dust away from her, and make her an uncovered rock

  • 14 Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.

  • 9 And the children of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things which were not right, building high places for themselves in all their towns, from the tower of the watchmen to the walled town.

  • 9 Uzziah made towers in Jerusalem, at the doorway in the angle and at the doorway in the valley and at the turn of the wall, arming them.

  • 2 In the visions of God he took me into the land of Israel, and put me down on a very high mountain, on which there was, as it seemed, a building like a town opposite me.

  • 38 And the other band of those who gave praise went to the left, and I went after them with half the people, on the wall, over the tower of the ovens, as far as the wide wall;

  • 15 And the chief things of the oldest mountains, and the good things of the eternal hills,

  • 15 So I will let loose my passion on the wall in full measure, and on those who put whitewash on it; and I will say to you, Where is the wall, and where are those who put whitewash on it?

  • 10 And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger.

  • 1 In that day will this song be made in the land of Judah: We have a strong town; he will make salvation our walls and towers.

  • 5 All these towns had high walls round them with doors and locks; and in addition we took a great number of unwalled towns.

  • 2 For by him it was based on the seas, and made strong on the deep rivers.

  • 19 And you are to put every walled town to destruction, cutting down every good tree, and stopping up every water-spring, and making all the good land rough with stones.

  • 10 Go up against her vines and make waste; let the destruction be complete: take away her branches, for they are not the Lord's.

  • Mic 7:11-12
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    11 A day for building your walls! in that day will your limits be stretched far and wide.

    12 In that day they will come to you from Assyria and the towns of Egypt, and from Egypt even to the River, and from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.

  • 8 It is the Lord's purpose to make waste the wall of the daughter of Zion; his line has been stretched out, he has not kept back his hand from destruction: he has sent sorrow on tower and wall, they have become feeble together.

  • 31 And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.

  • 19 But the tall trees will come down with a great fall, and the town will be low in a low place.

  • 5 And over every living-place on Mount Zion, all over all her meetings, the Lord will make a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all, the glory of the Lord will be a cover and a tent;

  • 29 All the land is in flight because of the noise of the horsemen and the bowmen; they have taken cover in the woodland and up on the rocks: every town has been given up, not a man is living in them.

  • 3 And I will make war on you like David, and you will be shut in by earthworks, and I will make towers round you.

  • 4 Your neck is like the tower of David made for a store-house of arms, in which a thousand breastplates are hanging, breastplates for fighting-men.

  • 12 They will take by force all your wealth and go off with the goods with which you do trade: they will have your walls broken down and all the houses of your desire given up to destruction: they will put your stones and your wood and your dust deep in the water.

  • 16 He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.

  • 52 Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put your faith, have come down: his armies will be round your towns, through all your land which the Lord your God has given you.

  • 18 Every builder was working with his sword at his side. And by my side was a man for sounding the horn.

  • 20 So that the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven and the beasts of the field and everything moving on the earth, and all the men who are on the face of the earth, will be shaking before me, and the mountains will be overturned and the high places will come down, and every wall will come falling down to the earth.