Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 25:2

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 .

Which is put collectively for cities. He speaks of the Cities of strangers, as the following Clause explains it, or of Enemies of God, and of his People. And under the Name cities he comprehends their Countries and Kingdoms, of which Cities are an eminent and commonly the strongest part.

The Royal Cities, in which were the palaces of strangers, i. e. of the Kings of strange People or of the Gentiles.

Their Cities and Palaces have been, or shall be, utterly and irrecoverably destroyed.

Marginal references: Chap. 21. 9. & 23. 13.