Isaiah 25:12
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New International Version (©2011)
He will bring down your high fortified walls and lay them low; he will bring them down to the ground, to the very dust.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The high walls of Moab will be demolished. They will be brought down to the ground, down into the dust.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down, lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The unassailable fortifications of your walls He will bring down, Lay low and cast to the ground, even to the dust.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The high-walled fortress will be brought down, thrown to the ground, to the dust.

International Standard Version (©2012)
He brings down the high fortifications of your walls and lays them low; he will raze them to the ground, right down to the dust.

NET Bible (©2006)
The fortified city (along with the very tops of your walls) he will knock down, he will bring it down, he will throw it down to the dusty ground.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He will bring down Moab's high fortified walls, level them, and throw them into the dust on the ground.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the fortress of the high fort of your walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

American King James Version
And the fortress of the high fort of your walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

American Standard Version
And the high fortress of thy walls hath he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the bulwarks of thy high walls shall fall, and be brought low, and shall be pulled down to the ground, even to the dust.

Darby Bible Translation
And the fortress of the high defences of thy walls will he bring down, lay low, bring to the ground, into the dust.

English Revised Version
And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls hath he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls will he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

World English Bible
He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

Young's Literal Translation
And the fortress of the high place of thy walls He hath bowed down -- He hath made low, He hath caused it to come to the earth, -- unto dust.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

25:9-12 With joy and praise will those entertain the glad tidings of the Redeemer, who looked for him; and with a triumphant song will glorified saints enter into the joy of their Lord. And it is not in vain to wait for him; for the mercy comes at last, with abundant recompence for the delay. The hands once stretched out upon the cross, to make way for our salvation, will at length be stretched forth to destroy all impenitent sinners. Moab is here put for all adversaries of God's people; they shall all be trodden down or threshed. God shall bring down the pride of the enemies by one humbling judgment after another. This destruction of Moab is typical of Christ's victory, and the pulling down of Satan's strong holds. Therefore, beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; for your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 12. - The fortress of the high fort... shall he bring down, etc.; rather, hath he bowed down, laid low, brought down to earth. The past mercies of God in abasing the pride of the Church's foes, rather than any further mercies of the same kind, seem to be here spoken cf. Mr. Cheyne suggests that the verse is out of place.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down,.... That is, their high and, fenced walls, which were about their cities, the fortifications of them; these should be destroyed by the Lord, be battered and brought down, not being able to stand against his mighty power. The Targum renders it,

"the mighty city, the cities of the nations;''

and may design the city of Rome, and the cities of the nations that shall fall at the pouring out of the seventh and last vial, Revelation 16:19 it follows,

lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust; which variety of words without any copulative are used to express the sudden, quick, certain, and irrecoverable destruction of such fortified city, or cities, and their fortifications.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

12. fortress—the strongholds of Moab, the representative of the foes of God's people [Barnes]. Babylon [Maurer]. The society of infidels represented as a city (Re 11:8).

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Song of Praise for God's Favor
…10For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. 11And he shall spread forth his hands in the middle of them, as he that swims spreads forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands. 12And the fortress of the high fort of your walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

Isaiah 2:15 for every lofty tower and every fortified wall,
Isaiah 15:1 A prophecy against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night!
Isaiah 25:2 You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin, the foreigners' stronghold a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.
Isaiah 26:5 He humbles those who dwell on high, he lays the lofty city low; he levels it to the ground and casts it down to the dust.
Lamentations 2:2 Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob; in his wrath he has torn down the strongholds of Daughter Judah. He has brought her kingdom and its princes down to the ground in dishonor.