2For 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.


In Context

1 O LORD, thou art my God, I will exalt thee, and give glory to thy name: for thou hast done wonderful things, thy designs of old faithful, amen.

2 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.

3 Therefore shall a strong people praise thee, the city of mighty nations shall fear thee.

4 Because thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress: a refuge from the whirlwind, a shadow from the heat. For the blast of the mighty is like a whirlwind beating against a wall.

Isaiah 25:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

25:2For 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

25:2You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin, the foreigners' stronghold a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

25:2For 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:2For 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

25:2For 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:2For 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:2For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

25:2For Thou didst make of a city a heap, Of a fenced city a ruin, A high place of strangers from being a city, To the age it is not built.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

25:2For you have made of a city an heap; of a defended city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.