Jeremiah 50:13

¹³ Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

Proverbs 16:18

¹⁸ Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

'Inhabitants,' in Isaiah 26:9, signify the men of the church in good of doctrine and thus in the good of life.