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.

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 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.

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 burden against Damascus.“ Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city, And it will be a ruinous heap.

The hyenas will howl in their citadels, And jackals in their pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, And her days will not be prolonged.”

The fortress of the high fort of your walls He will bring down, lay low, And bring to the ground, down to the dust.

Behold, the land of the Chaldeans, This people which was not; Assyria founded it for wild beasts of the desert. They set up its towers, They raised up its palaces, And brought it to ruin.

“ They threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and wailing, and saying,‘ Alas, alas, that great city, in which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! For in one hour she is made desolate.’

And look, here comes a chariot of men with a pair of horsemen!” Then he answered and said,“ Babylon is fallen, is fallen! And all the carved images of her gods He has broken to the ground.”

All your strongholds are fig trees with ripened figs: If they are shaken, They fall into the mouth of the eater.Surely, your people in your midst are women! The gates of your land are wide open for your enemies; Fire shall devour the bars of your gates.Draw your water for the siege! Fortify your strongholds! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Make strong the brick kiln!There the fire will devour you, The sword will cut you off; It will eat you up like a locust. Make yourself many— like the locust! Make yourself many— like the swarming locusts!

And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying,“ Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird!For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.”

“ I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, And marshes of muddy water; I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says the Lord of hosts.

They shall not take from you a stone for a corner Nor a stone for a foundation, But you shall be desolate forever,” says the Lord.

And you shall gather all its plunder into the middle of the street, and completely burn with fire the city and all its plunder, for the Lord your God. It shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.

The fortress also will cease from Ephraim, The kingdom from Damascus, And the remnant of Syria; They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” Says the Lord of hosts.