Isaiah 25:2 Cross References - NSB

² You have made the city a heap, the mighty city a ruin. The palace of aliens is a city no more. It will never be rebuilt.

¹⁶ »Gather all its treasure into the middle of its open square and burn the city and all its treasure with fire as a whole burnt offering to Jehovah your God. It shall be a ruin forever. It shall never be rebuilt.

²² »Wild beasts will howl in her fortified towers and jackals in her luxurious temples. Her time also will soon come and her days will not be prolonged.«

²³ »I will turn Babylon into a marsh. Porcupines will live there. I will sweep Babylon with a broom that will sweep everything away.« I, the Sovereign Lord Jehovah have spoken.

¹ »Damascus will cease to be a city, and will become a heap of ruins.

³ »The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom (sovereignty) from Damascus. The remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the children of Israel, proclaims Jehovah of Hosts.

⁹ »Look! Here come chariots and horsemen in pairs. Then he said: ‘Babylon has fallen! She has fallen! All the idols they worship lie shattered on the ground.’«

¹³ Look at the land of the Chaldeans. This is the people that were not. Assyria appointed it for desert creatures. They erected their siege towers and they stripped its palaces. They made it a ruin!

¹² He will bring down Moab's high-fortified walls, level them, and throw them into the dust on the ground.

²⁶ »People will not find any stones in you to use as a cornerstone. They will not find any stones in you to use for a foundation. You will become permanent ruins,« declares Jehovah.

¹² »All your defenses will be like fig trees with the ripe figs. When shaken, the figs fall into the mouth of the eater. ¹³ »Look! Your soldiers are like women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies. Fire will destroy the bars of your gates. ¹⁴ »Draw (pump) water for the siege! Strengthen your defenses! Step into the clay pits and trample the clay! Grab hold of the brick mold! ¹⁵ »You will be burned to death or killed in battle. You will be devoured like crops eaten by locusts. You grew in number like locusts!

² He cried out with a strong voice: »Babylon the Great has fallen, she has fallen! She has become the habitation of demons, and a haunt for every unclean spirit. She is a prison for every unclean and hateful bird. ³ »All nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication (immorality). The kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are very rich through the abundance of her luxury.«

¹⁹ »They threw dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying: 'Woe, woe to the great city. All that had ships in the sea became rich by her wealth. In one hour she was made desolate.'