Parallel Verses
Amplified
The high fortifications of your walls He will bring down,
Lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.
New American Standard Bible
Lay low and cast to the ground, even to the dust.
King James Version
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 Bible
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.
A Conservative Version
And the high fortress of thy walls he has brought down, laid low, and brought 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.
Bible in Basic English
And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.
Darby Translation
And the fortress of the high defences of thy walls will he bring down, lay low, bring to the ground, into the dust.
Julia Smith Translation
And the fortress of the height of thy walls shall be brought low; be humbled, be struck to the earth, even to the dust.
King James 2000
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And he will throw down the fortification of the high point of your walls; he will bring [it] low; he will {send it} to the ground, to [the] dust.
Modern King James verseion
And the fortress of the high fort of your walls He will lay low, bring to the ground, to the dust.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The stronghold also, and defense of thy walls hath he overthrown and cast down: and brought them to the ground, even into the dust.
NET Bible
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.
New Heart English Bible
He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
The Emphasized Bible
Yea, the lofty stronghold of thy walls, Hath he brought down - Laid low - Levelled to the ground even unto the dust.
Webster
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.
Youngs 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.
Interlinear
Shachach
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 25:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Death Will Be Swallowed Up
11
And Moab will spread out his hands in the middle of the filth
As a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim,
But the Lord will humiliate his pride in spite of the [skillful] movements of his hands.
The high fortifications of your walls He will bring down,
Lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.
Cross References
Isaiah 26:5
“For He has thrown down the [arrogant] ones who dwell on high, the lofty and inaccessible city;
He lays it low, He lays it low to the ground, He hurls it to the dust.
Isaiah 13:19-22
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the
Will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.
Isaiah 14:23
“I will also make Babylon a possession of the hedgehog and of
Isaiah 15:1
The [mournful, inspired] oracle (
Because in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.
Jeremiah 51:58
Thus says the Lord of hosts,
And her high gates will be set on fire;
The peoples will labor in vain,
And the nations become exhausted [only] for fire [that will destroy their work].”
Jeremiah 51:64
Then say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink down and not rise because of the disaster that I will bring on her; and the Babylonians will become [hopelessly] exhausted.’” Thus the words of Jeremiah are completed.
2 Corinthians 10:4-5
The weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood]. Our weapons are divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.
Hebrews 11:30
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days [by Joshua and the sons of Israel].
Revelation 18:21
Then a single powerful angel picked up a boulder like a great millstone and flung it into the sea, saying, “With such violence will Babylon the great city be hurled down [by the sudden, spectacular judgment of God], and will never again be found.