Deuteronomy 13:16
16You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and aburn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It shall be a bheap forever. It shall not be built again.Isaiah 14:23
23“And I will make it a possession of the chedgehog, ▼▼Possibly porcupine, or owl
and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts. Isaiah 17:1
An Oracle Concerning Damascus
1An eoracle concerning fDamascus.Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city
and will become a heap of ruins.
Isaiah 21:9
9And behold, here come riders,horsemen in pairs!”
gAnd he answered,
h“Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
iand all the carved images of her gods
he has shattered to the ground.”
Isaiah 23:13
13Behold the land of jthe Chaldeans! This is the people that was not; ▼▼Or that has become nothing
Assyria destined it for wild beasts. They erected ltheir siege towers, they stripped her palaces bare, they made her a ruin. Isaiah 25:12
12And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down,lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.
Jeremiah 51:26
26No mstone shall be taken from you for a cornerand no stone for a foundation,
but you shall be na perpetual waste,
declares the Lord.
Nahum 3:12-15
12All your fortresses are olike fig treeswith first-ripe figs—
if shaken they fall
into the mouth of the eater.
13Behold, your troops
pare women in your midst.
The gates of your land
are wide open to your enemies;
fire has devoured your bars.
14 qDraw water for the siege;
rstrengthen your forts;
go into the clay;
tread the mortar;
take hold of the brick mold!
15There will the fire devour you;
the sword will cut you off.
It will sdevour you tlike the locust.
Multiply yourselves ulike the locust;
multiply vlike the grasshopper!
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