The high-walled fortress will be brought down, cast to the ground, into the dust.
Parallel translations
- WEB He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
- 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.
- 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 18:21Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again.
- Isa 26:5For He has humbled those who dwell on high; He lays the lofty city low. He brings it down to the ground; He casts it into the dust.
- Isa 13:19–22And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.
- Heb 11:30By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the people had marched around them for seven days.
- Jer 51:58This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”
- Isa 14:23“I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
- Jer 51:64Then you are to say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will grow weary.’” Here end the words of Jeremiah.
- 2 Cor 10:4–5The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
- Isa 15:1This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night!
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