Isaiah 25:2
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2 For you have made the city (A)a heap,
the fortified city a ruin;
the foreigners' palace is a city no more;
it will never be rebuilt.
Isaiah 17:1
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An Oracle Concerning Damascus
17 An (A)oracle concerning (B)Damascus.
Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city
and will become a heap of ruins.
Isaiah 13:22
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22 Hyenas[a] will cry in its towers,
and (A)jackals in (B)the pleasant palaces;
its time is close at hand
and its days will not be prolonged.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:22 Or foxes
Isaiah 25:12
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12 And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down,
lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.
Revelation 18:19
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19 And they threw (A)dust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out,
“Alas, alas, for the great city
(B)where all who had ships at sea
grew rich by her wealth!
For (C)in a single hour she has been laid waste.
Revelation 18:2-3
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2 And he called out with a mighty voice,
(A)“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!
She has become (B)a dwelling place for demons,
a haunt (C)for every unclean spirit,
a haunt (D)for every unclean bird,
a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.
3 For all nations have drunk[a]
(E)the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality,
and (F)the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her,
and (G)the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living.”
Footnotes
- Revelation 18:3 Some manuscripts fallen by
Nahum 3:12-15
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12 All your fortresses are (A)like fig trees
with first-ripe figs—
if shaken they fall
into the mouth of the eater.
13 Behold, your troops
(B)are women in your midst.
The gates of your land
are wide open to your enemies;
fire has devoured your bars.
14 (C)Draw water for the siege;
(D)strengthen your forts;
go into the clay;
tread the mortar;
take hold of the brick mold!
15 There will the fire devour you;
the sword will cut you off.
It will (E)devour you (F)like the locust.
Multiply yourselves (G)like the locust;
multiply (H)like the grasshopper!
Jeremiah 51:26
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26 No (A)stone shall be taken from you for a corner
and no stone for a foundation,
but you shall be (B)a perpetual waste,
declares the Lord.
Isaiah 23:13
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13 Behold the land of (A)the Chaldeans! This is the people that was not;[a] Assyria destined it for wild beasts. They erected (B)their siege towers, they stripped her palaces bare, they made her a ruin.
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- Isaiah 23:13 Or that has become nothing
Isaiah 21:9
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9 And behold, here come riders,
horsemen in pairs!”
(A)And he answered,
(B)“Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
(C)and all the carved images of her gods
he has shattered to the ground.”
Isaiah 14:23
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23 “And I will make it a possession of the (A)hedgehog,[a] and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts.
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- Isaiah 14:23 Possibly porcupine, or owl
Deuteronomy 13:16
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16 You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and (A)burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It shall be a (B)heap forever. It shall not be built again.
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Isaiah 17:3
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3 The fortress will disappear from (A)Ephraim,
and the kingdom from (B)Damascus;
and the remnant of Syria will be
like (C)the glory of the children of Israel,
declares the Lord of hosts.
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