Bible Strands
Isaiah 25:12
The high-walled fortress will be brought down, cast to the ground, into the dust.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The speaker is God, communicated through Isaiah within a communal hymn of praise for His future victory over hostile nations.
The words — The Hebrew verbs הֵשַׁ֥ח (he.Shach) and הִשְׁפִּ֛יל (hish.Pil) both mean to lay low or bring down, describing the forced descent of the fortress.
The thread — This imagery of divine humiliation echoes in Isaiah 26:5 and Revelation 18:21, where God similarly reduces proud structures to the ground.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that human defenses and pride cannot withstand divine judgment, requiring the reader to abandon reliance on self-sufficiency.
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The Hebrew words
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.
Cross-references
- Isaiah 26:5 For 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.
- Revelation 18:21 Then 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.
- Isaiah 13:19 And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.
- Isaiah 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.
- Isaiah 15:1 This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night!
- Jeremiah 51:58 This 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.”
- Jeremiah 51:64 Then 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 Corinthians 10:4 The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the flesh. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
- Hebrews 11:30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the people had marched around them for seven days.