Isaiah 25:12 He will bring down your high fortified walls and lay them low; he will bring them down to the ground, to the very dust.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
He will bring down your high fortified walls and lay them low; he will bring them down to the ground, to the very dust.

English Standard Version
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
The unassailable fortifications of your walls He will bring down, Lay low and cast to the ground, even to the dust.

King James Bible
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
The high-walled fortress will be brought down, thrown to the ground, to the dust.

International Standard Version
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.

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.

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.

Cross References

Isaiah 2:15
And on every high tower, and on every fenced wall,

Isaiah 15:1
The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;

Isaiah 25:2
For you have made of a city an heap; of a defended city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

Isaiah 26:5
For he brings down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he lays it low; he lays it low, even to the ground; he brings it even to the dust.

Lamentations 2:2
The LORD has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: he has thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought them down to the ground: he has polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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).