He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
Parallel translations
- KJV 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.
- BSB The high-walled fortress will be brought down, cast to the ground, into the dust.
- NKJV The fortress of the high fort of your walls He will bring down, lay low, And bring to the ground, down to the dust.
- NASB The unassailable fortifications of your walls He will bring down, Lay low, and throw to the ground, to the dust.
- NLT The high walls of Moab will be demolished. They will be brought down to the ground, down into the dust.
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Quick answer
God will demolish Moab's high, fortified walls, bringing them down to the dust. The proud defenses of the enemy are leveled.
Overview
The lofty fortifications in which Moab trusted are cast to the ground. The reduction to dust signals complete defeat. The verse closes the contrast between God's secure people and the collapsing strongholds of the proud.
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Cross-references · 9
- Rev 18:21A 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.
- Isa 26:5For 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.
- Isa 13:19–22Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
- Heb 11:30By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days.
- Jer 51:58Yahweh 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.”
- Isa 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.
- Jer 51:64Then you shall say, ‘Thus will Babylon sink, and will not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they shall be weary.’” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
- 2 Cor 10:4–5for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,
- Isa 15:1The 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.
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