Isa 25:2 | JFB | e4.org | 2. a city . . . heap —Babylon, type of the seat of Antichrist, to be destroyed in the last days (compare , followed, as here, by the song of the saints' thanksgiving in ). "Heaps" is a graphic picture of Babylon and Nineveh as they now are. palace —Babylon regarded, on account of its splendor, as a vast palace. But MAURER translates, "a citadel." of strangers —foreigners, whose capital pre-eminently Babylon was, the metropolis of the pagan world. "Aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers from the covenants of promise" ( ; see in contrast, ). never be built

‏ Isaiah 25:2

2. a city . . . heap—Babylon, type of the seat of Antichrist, to be destroyed in the last days (compare Jer 51:37, with Re 18:1-24, followed, as here, by the song of the saints' thanksgiving in Re 19:1-21). "Heaps" is a graphic picture of Babylon and Nineveh as they now are.

palace—Babylon regarded, on account of its splendor, as a vast palace. But MAURER translates, "a citadel."

of strangers—foreigners, whose capital pre-eminently Babylon was, the metropolis of the pagan world. "Aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers from the covenants of promise" (Isa 29:5; Eph 2:12; see in contrast, Joe 3:17).

never be built— (Isa 13:19, 20, &c.).