Isaiah 25:2

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For you have turned the city into a heap of ruins, the fortified city into rubble; the palace of foreigners will never be rebuilt.

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  • Isa 17:1 : 1 This is an oracle concerning Damascus: Behold, Damascus will no longer be a city; it will become a heap of ruins.
  • Isa 13:22 : 22 Hyenas will cry in its towers, and jackals in its luxurious palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.
  • Isa 25:12 : 12 He will demolish the high fortress of your walls, bring it down to the ground, to the very dust.
  • Jer 51:26 : 26 No stone will be taken from you for a cornerstone or foundation, for you will be desolate forever, declares the Lord.
  • Nah 3:12-15 : 12 All your fortresses are like fig trees with the first ripe fruit; when they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater. 13 Look, your people are like women within you. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies, and fire has consumed your bars. 14 Draw water for the siege, strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay and tread the mortar; take hold of the brick mold. 15 There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down. It will consume you like the young locusts. Multiply yourselves like locusts; increase yourselves like swarming locusts.
  • Rev 18:2-3 : 2 He cried out with a mighty voice, saying, 'Fallen, fallen is Babylon the Great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a prison for every unclean spirit, and a cage for every unclean and detested bird.' 3 For all the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the abundance of her luxurious living.
  • Rev 18:19 : 19 And they threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and mourning, saying, 'Woe, woe to the great city, in which all who owned ships at sea became rich from her wealth! For in one hour she has been laid waste.'
  • Isa 17:3 : 3 The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the Israelites, declares the LORD of Hosts.
  • Isa 21:9 : 9 And behold, here comes a chariot of men, with pairs of horsemen. And he answered, saying, 'Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the carved images of her gods are shattered to the ground.'
  • Isa 23:13 : 13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans—this is the people that was not; Assyria established it as a refuge for wild creatures. They set up its siege towers, stripped its palaces bare, and made it a ruin.
  • Isa 14:23 : 23 I will make her a possession for hedgehogs and swamps of water, and I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,' declares the LORD of Hosts.
  • Deut 13:16 : 16 you must surely strike down the inhabitants of that city with the sword, devoting it and all that is in it, including its livestock, to complete destruction.

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