Isa 25:2 | NET2full | STEP | Indeed , you have made the city into a heap of rubble , the fortified town into a heap of ruins ; the fortress of foreigners is no longer a city , it will never be rebuilt .

‏ Isaiah 25:2

2 Indeed, ^{▼▼tn Or “For” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV).} you have made the city ^{▼▼tn The Hebrew text has “you have made from the city.” The prefixed mem (מ) on עִיר (ʿir, “city”) was probably originally an enclitic mem suffixed to the preceding verb. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:456, n. 3.} into a heap of rubble,
the fortified town into a heap of ruins;
the fortress of foreigners ^{▼▼tc Some with support from the LXX emend זָרִים (zarim, “foreigners”) to זֵדִים (zedim, “the insolent”).} is no longer a city,
it will never be rebuilt.