Cross-references Explore similar Bible verses on Isaiah 25:2 in English Standard Version "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." Isa 17:1 An oracle concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins. Jer 51:37 and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.