Bible verse
who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”
Isaiah 14:17 · BSB
The verses around it, from Isaiah 14.
13 You said in your heart: “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north.
14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”
15 But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.
16 Those who see you will stare; they will ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble,
17 who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”
18 All the kings of the nations lie in state, each in his own tomb.
19 But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.
20 You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.
21 Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.
KJV
[That] made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; [that] opened not the house of his prisoners?
ASV
that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that let not loose his prisoners to their home?
ERV
that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that let not loose his prisoners to their home?
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