the fortress

Isaiah 26:5
For He has humbled those who dwell on high--He lays the lofty city low. He brings it down to the ground; He casts it into the dust.

Jeremiah 51:58, 64
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Babylon's thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames." . . .

2 Corinthians 10:4, 5
The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. . . .

Hebrews 11:30
By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the people had marched around them for seven days.

Revelation 18:21
Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: "With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again.

to the dust

Isaiah 13:19-22
And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah. . . .

Isaiah 14:23
"I will make her a place for owls and swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction, " declares the LORD of Hosts.