Isaiah 25:12

the fortress … walls Better perhaps, the towering fortification of thy walls. This verse has suggested the identification of the city of Isaiah 25:2; Isaiah 26:5 f. with a city of Moab. The expressions of the verse are certainly remarkably parallel to those of Isaiah 26:5, to which Duhm thinks that it was a marginal variant. Other commentators also have surmised that it is misplaced.

shall he bring down, &c. R.V. more literally, hath he brought down, &c. The perfects, however, may be those of certainty.