“I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, with marshes of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction.” It is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot.
Isaiah 25:12 - Tree of Life Version He will level your high-fortified walls, lay them low, and cast them down to the ground, down to dust. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the high fortifications of your walls [the Lord] will bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust. American Standard Version (1901) And the high fortress of thy walls hath he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust. Common English Bible The fortified towers of their walls will be thrown down, will be leveled, will be brought down to the earth, to the dust. Catholic Public Domain Version And the fortifications of your sublime walls will fall, and be brought low, and be torn down to the ground, even to the dust. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the bulwarks of thy high walls shall fall and be brought low, and shall be pulled down to the ground, even to the dust. |
“I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, with marshes of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction.” It is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot.
The burden of Moab. For in the night that Ar is devastated, Moab is ruined; for in the night that Kir is devastated, Moab is ruined.
For You have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a foreigner’s palace a city no more— never to be rebuilt.
For He humbles those dwelling on high, leveling the lofty city, leveling it to the ground, bringing it down to the dust.
Concerning Moab, thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel: “Oy to Nebo! For it will be ravaged. Kiriathaim will be disgraced and captured. The fortress will be shamed, shattered.
Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: “Babylon’s thick wall will be totally razed and her high gates burned with fire. So the peoples are toiling for nothing, and nations weary themselves for fire.”
Then you will say: ‘Thus will Babylon sink, and not rise again, because of the calamity that I will bring on her. So they will weary themselves.’” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
My Lord has mercilessly swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. He threw down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah in His fury. He knocked to the ground and humiliated the kingdom and its princes.
Your heart was exalted because of your beauty. You corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. I threw you down to the earth. Before kings I set you up as a spectacle.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were circled for seven days.
Then a mighty angel picked up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying: “So shall Babylon, the great city, be thrown down with violence, never to be found again!