He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
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He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
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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.
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And the high fortress of thy walls will He bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.
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Passages linked to Isaiah 25:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 26:5 For he has brought down those who 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.
- Revelation 18:21 A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, “Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all.
- Isaiah 13:19-22 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there. But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there. Wolves will cry in their fortresses, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.
- Isaiah 14:23 “I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says Yahweh of Armies.
- Isaiah 15:1 The burden of Moab. For in a night, Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing. For in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing.
- Jeremiah 51:58 Yahweh of Armies says: “The wide walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown. Her high gates will be burned with fire. The peoples will labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they will be weary.”
- Jeremiah 51:64 Then you shall say, ‘Thus will Babylon sink, and will not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they will be weary.’ ” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
- 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds, throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
- Hebrews 11:30 By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 25:12 And the fortress of the high fort…
Isa 25:12 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.
Ver. 12. Shall he bring down, &c.] To show that there is no strength against the Lord, the true πτολιπορθος.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The fortress of the high fort of thy walls;…
The fortress of the high fort of thy walls; all thy walled cities and fortifications, to which thou trustest.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the fortress of the high fort of thy…
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;''
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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, Rev 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.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain And - All thy fortifications, in which thou trustest.
And - All thy fortifications, in which thou trustest.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain And the fortress ... - Thy strong defenses shall…
And the fortress ... - Thy strong defenses shall be destroyed. This is spoken of Moab (compare the notes at Isa 15:1-9;Isa 16:1-14), and is designed to be emblematic of the enemies of the people of God (compare the notes at Isa. 34) The repetition of the expressions ‘bring down,’ ‘lay low,’ and ‘bring to the ground,’ is designed to make the sentence emphatic, and to indicate that it would certainly be accomplished.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain fortress--the strongholds of Moab, the representative of the foes…
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 (Rev 11:8).
As the overthrow of the apostate faction is described in the twenty-fifth chapter, so the peace of the faithful is here described under the image of a well-fortified city.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 12. the fortress … walls] Better perhaps, the towering…
12. the fortress … walls] Better perhaps, the towering fortification of thy walls. This verse has suggested the identification of the city of Isa_25:2, Isa_26:5 f. with a city of Moab. The expressions of the verse are certainly remarkably parallel to those of Isa_26:5, to which Duhm thinks that it was a marginal variant. Other commentators also have surmised that it is misplaced.
shall he bring down, &c.] R.V. more literally, hath he brought down, &c. The perfects, however, may be those of certainty.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (12) And the fortress of the high fort of…
(12) And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls . . .—Primarily the words, as interpreted by Isa_25:10, point to Kir-Moab (Isa_15:1) as the stronghold of the nation. Beyond this they predict a like destruction of every stronghold, every rock-built fortress (2Co_10:5) of the great world-power of which Moab was for the time the symbol.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The fortress of the high fort... shall he bring…
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 of. Mr. Cheyne suggests that the verse is out of place.
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