Lexicon :: Strong's H4013 - miḇṣār

You have broken down all his [city] walls;

You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

Who will bring me into the fortified city [of Petra]?

Who will lead me to Edom?

“The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,

And the kingdom from Damascus

And the remnant of Aram (Syria);

They will be like the [departed] glory of [her ally] the children of Israel,”

Declares the LORD of hosts.

The high fortifications of your walls He will bring down,

Lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.

Thorns will come up in its fortified palaces,

Nettles and brambles in its fortified cities;

It will be a haunt for jackals,

An abode for ostriches.

Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say,

“Blow the trumpet in the land;

Cry aloud and say,

‘Assemble yourselves, and let us go

Into the fortified cities.’

“They will consume your harvest and [eat up] your bread;

They will consume your sons and your daughters;

They will consume your flocks and your herds;

They will consume your vines and your fig trees.

With the sword they will break down and demolish your fortified cities in which you trust.

“I [the LORD] have set you as an assayer [O Jeremiah] and as a tester [of the ore] of My people,

That you may know and analyze their acts.”

Why are we sitting still [the people wonder]?

Assemble yourselves, and let us enter the fortified cities

And let us die there,

For the LORD our God has decreed our ruin

And given us bitter and poisonous water to drink,

Because we have sinned against the LORD.

“Come down from your glory,

O Daughter living in [fn]Dibon,

And sit on the parched ground [among the thirsty]!

For the destroyer of Moab has advanced against you;

He has destroyed your strongholds.

The Lord has swallowed up; He has not spared

All the country places of Jacob.

In His wrath He has thrown down

The strongholds of the Daughter of Judah (Jerusalem).

He has brought them down to the ground [in disgrace];

He has debased the kingdom and its princes.

The Lord has become like an enemy;

He has swallowed up Israel.

He has swallowed up all its palaces;

He has destroyed its strongholds

And multiplied in the Daughter of Judah

Mourning and lamentation (expressions of grief).

Therefore an uproar will arise among your people,

And all your fortresses will be destroyed,

As Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle,

When mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.

It is He who causes [sudden] destruction to flash forth on the strong

So that destruction comes on the fortress.

“I will cut off the cities of your land

And tear down all your fortifications.

All your fortresses are [nothing but] fig trees with ripe figs—

When shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater.

Draw water for a [long, continued] siege!

Strengthen your fortresses!

Go down to the clay pits, trample the mortar!

Prepare the brick kiln [to burn bricks for the rampart]!

“They make fun of kings

And rulers are a laughing matter to them.

They ridicule every stronghold

And heap up rubble [for earth mounds] and capture it.