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11 They will spread their arms in it
    like a person who is swimming.
The Lord will bring down their pride.
    All the clever things they have made will mean nothing.
12 Moab’s high walls protect them.
    But the Lord will destroy these walls.
The Lord will throw them down on the ground.
    The stones will lie in the dust.

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11 They will stretch out their hands in it,
    as swimmers stretch out their hands to swim.
God will bring down(A) their pride(B)
    despite the cleverness[a] of their hands.
12 He will bring down your high fortified walls(C)
    and lay them low;(D)
he will bring them down to the ground,
    to the very dust.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 25:11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.