Isaiah 25:2
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2 For You have made (A)a city a ruin,
A fortified city a ruin,
A palace of foreigners to be a city no more;
It will never be rebuilt.
Isaiah 17:1
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Proclamation Against Syria and Israel
17 The (A)burden[a] against Damascus.
“Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city,
And it will be a ruinous heap.
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- Isaiah 17:1 oracle, prophecy
Isaiah 13:22
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22 The hyenas will howl in their citadels,
And jackals in their pleasant palaces.
(A)Her time is near to come,
And her days will not be prolonged.”
Isaiah 25:12
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12 The (A)fortress of the high fort of your walls
He will bring down, lay low,
And bring to the ground, down to the dust.
Revelation 18:19
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19 (A)“They threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and wailing, and saying, ‘Alas, alas, that great city, in which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! (B)For in one hour she [a]is made desolate.’
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- Revelation 18:19 have been laid waste
Revelation 18:2-3
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2 And he cried [a]mightily with a loud voice, saying, (A)“Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and (B)has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and (C)a cage for every unclean and hated bird! 3 For all the nations (D)have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, (E)and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the [b]abundance of her luxury.”
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- Revelation 18:2 NU, M omit mightily
- Revelation 18:3 Lit. strengths
Nahum 3:12-15
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12 All your strongholds are (A)fig trees with ripened figs:
If they are shaken,
They fall into the mouth of the eater.
13 Surely, (B)your people in your midst are women!
The gates of your land are wide open for your enemies;
Fire shall devour the (C)bars of your gates.
14 Draw your water for the siege!
(D)Fortify your strongholds!
Go into the clay and tread the mortar!
Make strong the brick kiln!
15 There the fire will devour you,
The sword will cut you off;
It will eat you up like a (E)locust.
Make yourself many—like the locust!
Make yourself many—like the swarming locusts!
Jeremiah 51:26
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26 They shall not take from you a stone for a corner
Nor a stone for a foundation,
(A)But you shall be desolate forever,” says the Lord.
Isaiah 23:13
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13 Behold, the land of the (A)Chaldeans,
This people which was not;
Assyria founded it for (B)wild beasts of the desert.
They set up its towers,
They raised up its palaces,
And brought it to ruin.
Isaiah 21:9
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9 And look, here comes a chariot of men with a pair of horsemen!”
Then he answered and said,
(A)“Babylon is fallen, is fallen!
And (B)all the carved images of her gods
He has broken to the ground.”
Isaiah 14:23
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23 “I will also make it a possession for the (A)porcupine,
And marshes of muddy water;
I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says the Lord of hosts.
Deuteronomy 13:16
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16 And you shall gather all its plunder into the middle of the street, and [a]completely (A)burn with fire the city and all its plunder, for the Lord your God. It shall be (B)a [b]heap forever; it shall not be built again.
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- Deuteronomy 13:16 Or as a whole-offering
- Deuteronomy 13:16 Lit. mound or ruin
Isaiah 17:3
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3 (A)The fortress also will cease from Ephraim,
The kingdom from Damascus,
And the remnant of Syria;
They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
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