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Isaiah 25:2

What does Isaiah 25:2 mean?

A plain-English look at Isaiah 25:2 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For thou hast made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For thou hast made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

For you have made a town a waste place: a strong town a mass of broken walls; the tower of the men of pride has come to an end; it will never be put up again.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

For Thou didst make of a city a heap, Of a fenced city a ruin, A high place of strangers from <FI>being<Fi> a city, To the age it is not built.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

For thou hast reduced the city to a heap, the strong city to ruin, the house of strangers, to be no city, and to be no more built up for ever.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

For thou hast made of the city a heap, of the fortified town a ruin, the palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built up.

Context

v.1O Jehovah, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things, even counsels of old, in faithfulness and truth.

v.2This passage

v.3Therefore shall a strong people glorify thee; a city of terrible nations shall fear thee.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Revelation 18:19

    And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, wherein all that had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

  • Isaiah 23:13

    Behold, the land of the Chaldeans: this people was not; the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness; they set up their towers; they overthrew the palaces thereof; they made it a ruin.

  • Isaiah 17:1

    The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

  • Isaiah 21:9

    and, behold, here cometh a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. And he answered and said, Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground.

  • Isaiah 25:12

    And the high fortress of thy walls hath he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

  • Nahum 3:12

    All thy fortresses shall be like fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

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