Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
a city . . . heap—Babylon, type of the seat of Antichrist, to be destroyed in the last days (compare Jeremiah 51:37, with Rev. 18:1-24, followed, as here, by the song of the saints' thanksgiving in Rev. 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" (Isaiah 29:5; Ephesians 2:12; see in contrast, Joel 3:17).
never be built— (Isaiah 13:19-20, etc.).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 25:2:
Isaiah 23:18
Isaiah 25:1
Isaiah 26:5
Isaiah 29:5
Jeremiah 9:11
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