Isaiah 25:2

Indeed, ¹  you have made the city ²  into a heap of rubble, the fortified town into a heap of ruins; the fortress of foreigners ³  is no longer a city, it will never be rebuilt.

De 13:16; Isa 13:22; Isa 14:23; Isa 17:1; Isa 21:9; Isa 23:13; Isa 25:12; Jer 51:26; Na 3:12-15; Re 18:2,3,19

¹ tn Or “For” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV).

² tn The Hebrew text has “you have made from the city.” The prefixed mem (מ) on עִיר (’ir, “city”) was probably originally an enclitic mem suffixed to the preceding verb. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:456, n. 3.

³ tc Some with support from the LXX emend זָרִים (zarim, “foreigners”) to זֵדִים (zedim, “the insolent”).