For 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 SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Isaiah 25:2 in context
Isaiah 25:1–5
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The LORD, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.
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For 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.
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Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you.
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For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.
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As the heat in a dry place you will bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low.
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