For You have turned a city into a heap, A fortified city into a ruin; A palace of strangers is no longer a city, It will never be rebuilt.

你使城变为乱堆，使坚固城变为荒场，使外邦人宫殿的城不再为城，永远不再建造。

你使城市变为废墟，使坚固的城荒凉，使外邦人的城堡不再为城，永远不再重建。

你使城市变为废墟，使坚固的城荒凉，使外邦人的城堡不再为城，永远不再重建。

你使城邑沦为废墟，使坚垒沦为荒场。外族人的宫殿不复存在，永远不能重建。

你使城市变成废堆，使坚固城变为荒凉的地方，使外族人的城堡不再为城，永远不得重建。

你使城市变为乱堆，使坚固的城沦为废墟；外族人的城堡不复存在，永远不得重建。

你使城變為亂堆，使堅固城變為荒場，使外邦人宮殿的城不再為城，永遠不再建造。

你使城市變為廢墟，使堅固的城荒涼，使外邦人的城堡不再為城，永遠不再重建。

你使城市變為廢墟，使堅固的城荒涼，使外邦人的城堡不再為城，永遠不再重建。

你使城邑淪為廢墟，使堅壘淪為荒場。外族人的宮殿不復存在，永遠不能重建。

你使城市變成廢堆，使堅固城變為荒涼的地方，使外族人的城堡不再為城，永遠不得重建。

因為你使那城變為土堆，使有堡壘的都市變為廢瓦頹牆，使傲慢人的宮堡不再為城，永遠不得重建。

你使城市變為亂堆，使堅固的城淪為廢墟；外族人的城堡不復存在，永遠不得重建。

爾使衛城為瓦礫、堅城為邱墟、外族之宮、不復為邑、永不再建、

爾使城垣、變為瓦礫、異邦都邑、一圮不振、

使城垣變為瓦礫、鞏固之城、變為邱墟、異邦暴君之都邑傾圮、不復成邑、永不復建、

You 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.

You have turned cities into piles of trash. You have pulled down the high walls that were around them. You have destroyed our enemies’ forts. They will never be rebuilt.

For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the foreigners’ palace is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.

You turn mighty cities into heaps of ruins. Cities with strong walls are turned to rubble. Beautiful palaces in distant lands disappear and will never be rebuilt.

For you have turned the city into a pile of rocks, a fortified city, into ruins; the fortress of barbarians is no longer a city; it will never be rebuilt.

For You have made a city a ruin, A fortified city a ruin, A palace of foreigners to be a city no more; It will never be rebuilt.

For 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.

For You have turned the city into a pile of rocks, a fortified city, into ruins; the fortress of barbarians is no longer a city; it will never be rebuilt.

For 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.

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.

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 pronouncement concerning Damascus:“ Behold, Damascus is about to be removed from being a city And will become a fallen ruin.

Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers And jackals in their luxurious palaces. Her fateful time also will soon come, And her days will not be prolonged.

The unassailable fortifications of your walls He will bring down, Lay low, and throw to the ground, to the dust.

Behold, the land of the Chaldeans— this is the people that did not exist; Assyria allocated it for desert creatures— they erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, they made it a ruin.

And they threw dust on their heads and were crying out, weeping and mourning, saying,‘ Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had ships at sea became rich from her prosperity, for in one hour she has been laid waste!’

Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one said,“ Fallen, fallen is Babylon; And all the images of her gods are shattered on the ground.”

All your fortifications are fig trees with ripe fruit— When shaken, they fall into the eater’s mouth.Behold, your people are women in your midst! The gates of your land are opened wide to your enemies; Fire consumes your gate bars.Draw for yourself water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Take hold of the brick mold!There fire will consume you, The sword will cut you down; It will consume you as the creeping locust consumes a crop. Multiply yourself like the creeping locust, Multiply yourself like the migratory locust.

And he cried out with a mighty voice, saying,“ Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird.For all the nations have fallen because of the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed acts of sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich from the excessive wealth of her luxury.”

“ I will also make it the property of the hedgehog and swamps of water, and I will sweep it away with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of armies.

They will not take from you even a stone for a corner Nor a stone for foundations, But you will be desolate forever,” declares the Lord.

Then you shall gather all its plunder into the middle of its public square, and burn the city and all its plunder with fire as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God; and it shall be a ruin forever. It shall never be rebuilt.

The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, And sovereignty from Damascus And the remnant of Aram; They will be like the glory of the sons of Israel,” Declares the Lord of armies.