25:2 Indeed, 1 you have made the city 2 into a heap of rubble,
the fortified town into a heap of ruins;
the fortress of foreigners 3 is no longer a city,
it will never be rebuilt.
25:12 The fortified city (along with the very tops of your 4 walls) 5 he will knock down,
he will bring it down, he will throw it down to the dusty ground. 6
1 tn Or “For” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV).
2 tn The Hebrew text has “you have made from the city.” The prefixed mem (מ) on עִיר (’ir, “city”) was probably originally an enclitic mem suffixed to the preceding verb. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:456, n. 3.
3 tc Some with support from the LXX emend זָרִים (zarim, “foreigners”) to זֵדִים (zedim, “the insolent”).
4 sn Moab is addressed.
5 tn Heb “a fortification, the high point of your walls.”
6 tn Heb “he will bring [it] down, he will make [it] touch the ground, even to the dust.”