Isaiah 25:2
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. 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.
The verse is a song of praise that exalts God for doing wonderful things, because His counsels formed long ago are faithfulness and truth. It declares that He has turned a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, and a palace of foreigners into no city at all, never to be rebuilt. That overthrow of hostile power stands together with His being a strength to the poor and needy in their distress, a refuge from the storm and a shade from the heat. It stands together also with His bringing down the tumult of foreigners and the offshoot of ruthless men. It stands together also with causing strong peoples to glorify Him and dreaded nations to fear Him.
It points forward to the time when the Lord will have destroyed all pride and self-exaltation. The terrible destruction wrought in San Francisco is a reminder of this word, showing His power to lay a proud, fortified city in ruins, so that the verse is a word to hold fast to as an anchor.
It sets forth the spirit believers should cherish toward God, exalting His name with praise and thanksgiving, pressing together in unity, and making zealous efforts to save souls, instead of murmuring and complaining and accusing and picking at flaws, while those who profess to believe the truth but do not practice it are not doers of the Word. All His counsels to His covenant people are faithfulness and truth, and mercy and righteousness rest on understanding and obeying the will of the Lord, so only the strictest obedience is accepted from those in the highest responsibility and a change in administration must come where His work has not been accepted.