Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
Amplified
The high fortifications of your walls He will bring down,
Lay low, and cast to the ground, 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 They will spread out their hands in the thick of it, just as swimmers spread out their hands to swim, but the LORD will bring down their pride, together with the cleverness of their hands. 12 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.
Cross References
Isaiah 26:5
For he has made drunk the inhabitants of the height, the lofty city. He lays it low to the ground casting it down to the dust,
Isaiah 13:19-22
Babylon, that jewel of kingdoms, the splendor and pride of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah, when God overthrew them
Isaiah 14:23
"And I'm going to make it a possession of the hedgehog pools of water and I'll sweep with the broom of destruction," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.
Isaiah 15:1
A message concerning Moab: "For Ir in Moab is destroyed in a night, and Moab is ruined! Because Ir in Moab is destroyed in a single night, Moab is ruined!
Jeremiah 51:58
This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "The broad wall of Babylon will be completely leveled, and its high gate set on fire. and so the nations toil for nothing, and the nations weary themselves only for fire."
Jeremiah 51:64
Then say, "Babylon will sink like this and won't rise from the disaster that I'm bringing on her. Her people will be exhausted.'" This concludes the writings of Jeremiah.
2 Corinthians 10:4-5
For the weapons of our warfare are not those of the world. Instead, they have the power of God to demolish fortresses. We tear down arguments
Hebrews 11:30
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.
Revelation 18:21
Then a powerful angel picked up a stone that was like a large millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "The great city Babylon will be thrown down violently and will never be found again.