Isaiah 2:15

Easy-to-Read Version

or like the tall towers and high walls, but they will be brought down.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
against every high tower,against every fortified wall,

Hebrew Names Version
For every lofty tower, For every fortified wall,

King James Version
And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,

English Standard Version
against every high tower, and against every fortified wall;

New American Standard Bible
Against every high tower, Against every fortified wall,

New Century Version
every tall tower and every high, strong wall,

Amplified Bible
Against every high tower, Against every fortified wall,

World English Bible
For every lofty tower, For every fortified wall,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And vpon euery hie tower, and vpon euery strong wall,

Legacy Standard Bible
Against every lofty tower,Against every fortified wall,

Berean Standard Bible
against every high tower, against every fortified wall,

Contemporary English Version
every strong fortress,

Complete Jewish Bible
for every high tower, for every fortified wall;

Darby Translation
and upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall;

George Lamsa Translation
And against every high tower, and against every fenced wall,

Good News Translation
every high tower, and the walls of every fortress.

Lexham English Bible
and against every kind of high tower, and against every kind of fortified wall,

Literal Translation
and against every tall tower; and against every fortified wall;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
vpon all costly towres, and vpon all stronge walles,

American Standard Version
and upon every lofty tower, and upon every fortified wall,

Bible in Basic English
And on every high tower, and on every strong wall;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And upon every lofty tower, and upon every fortified wall;

King James Version (1611)
And vpon euery high tower, and vpon euery fenced wall,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And vpon euery high towre, and vpon euery fenced wall,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and upon every high tower, and upon every high wall,

English Revised Version
and upon every lofty tower, and upon every fenced wall;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and on ech hiy tour, and on ech strong wal;

Update Bible Version
and on every lofty tower, and on every fortified wall,

Webster's Bible Translation
And upon every high tower, and upon every fortified wall,

New English Translation
for every high tower, for every fortified wall,

New King James Version
Upon every high tower, And upon every fortified wall;

New Living Translation
He will break down every high tower and every fortified wall.

New Life Bible
against every high tower, and against every strong wall.

New Revised Standard
against every high tower, and against every fortified wall;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And upon every high tower, - And upon every fortress wall;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And upon every high tower, and every fenced wall.

Revised Standard Version
against every high tower, and against every fortified wall;

Young's Literal Translation
And for every high tower, And for every fenced wall,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Against every high tower, Against every fortified wall,

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ You should be afraid of the Lord ! Go hide in the dirt and behind the rocks. Hide from his glorious power! ¹¹ Proud people will stop being proud. They will bow down to the ground with shame, and only the Lord will still stand high. ¹² The Lord All-Powerful has a special day planned when he will punish the proud and boastful people. They will be brought down. ¹³ They might be like the tall cedar trees from Lebanon or the great oak trees from Bashan, but they will be cut down. ¹⁴ They might be like the tall mountains and high hills ¹⁵ or like the tall towers and high walls, but they will be brought down. ¹⁶ They might be like great ships from Tarshish, filled with such wonderful cargo, but they will be brought down. ¹⁷ At that time those proud people will fall. They will bow low to the ground, and only the Lord will stand high. ¹⁸ All the idols will be gone. ¹⁹ People will go into the holes in the ground and the cracks in the rocks because they fear the Lord and his great power as he stands to shake the earth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Isaiah 28:18 - when Isaiah 30:25 - upon every high

Cross-References

Genesis 2:2
God finished the work he was doing, so on the seventh day he rested from his work.

Genesis 2:8
Then the Lord God planted a garden in the East, in a place named Eden. He put the man he made in that garden.

Job 31:33
I have not tried to hide my sins as some people do. I have never hidden my guilt.

Psalms 128:2
You will get what you work for. You will enjoy the Lord's blessings, and all will go well for you.

Ephesians 4:28
Whoever has been stealing must stop it and start working. They must use their hands for doing something good. Then they will have something to share with those who are poor.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall. Which may signify everything that serves to support and defend the antichristian hierarchy, particularly the secular powers. The Targum paraphrases it,

"and upon all that dwell in a high tower, and upon all that reside by a fortified wall.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Every high tower - Towers, or fortresses, were erected for defense and protection. They were made on the walls of cities, for places of observation (compare the note at Isaiah 21:5), or in places of strength, to be a refuge for an army, and to be a point from which they might sally out to attack their enemies. They were “high” to afford a defense against being scaled by an enemy, and also that from the top they might look abroad for observation; and also to annoy an enemy from the top, when the foe approached the walls of a city.

Every fenced wall - הומה בצוּרה betsûrâh hômâh. The word “fenced,” בצוּרה betsûrâh, is from בצר bâtsar, to make inaccessible, and hence, to fortify. It denotes a wall that is inaccessible, or strongly fortified. Cities were commonly surrounded by high and strong walls to defend them from enemies. The sense is, God would overturn all their strong places of refuge and defense.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 2:15. Isaiah 2:13.