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11 And God will reach out, like a swimmer pulling water,
    and drag down their arrogance and everything that made them proud.
12 God will bring down their strongest walls, their impenetrable defenses,
    and grind them to the ground until they are only 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.