Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageAnd the high fortifications of your walls He will bring down — brought low and cast to the ground, down to the very dust.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GThe high fortifications of your walls He will bring down, lay flat, and hurl to the ground — to the dust itself.
KJV
King James VersionAnd the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleThe high-walled fortress will be brought down, cast to the ground, into the dust.
Footnotes
This verse returns to the imagery of verse 2 (the fortified city reduced to rubble), forming a bookend that frames the entire chapter within a single arc of divine judgement. The triple-verb sequence — *heshach, hishpil, higgia* (הֵשַׁח, הִשְׁפִּיל, הִגִּיעַ), 'brought down, laid low, reached to' — is a rhetorical escalation: not merely demolished but ground into the earth itself. *Afar* (עָפָר), 'dust,' echoes Genesis 3:19 ('to dust you shall return'), suggesting that all proud human kingdoms undergo a creation-reversal, returning to the nothing from which they came. FOG renders the triple verb as a punchy list for rhythmic impact; FOG Message uses a flowing construction for liturgical resonance.
