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Isaiah 25:2
New English Translation
Isaiah 25:2
New English Translation
2 Indeed,[a] you have made the city[b] into a heap of rubble,
the fortified town into a heap of ruins;
the fortress of foreigners[c] is no longer a city,
it will never be rebuilt.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 25:2 tn Or “For” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV).
- Isaiah 25:2 tn The Hebrew text has “you have made from the city.” The prefixed mem (מ) on עִיר (ʿir, “city”) was probably originally an enclitic mem suffixed to the preceding verb. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:456, n. 3.
- Isaiah 25:2 tc Some with support from the LXX emend זָרִים (zarim, “foreigners”) to זֵדִים (zedim, “the insolent”).
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