Isaiah 25:9-12

A Song of Deliverance. Moab is Crushed. Then they will sing, Yahweh is our Saviour, let us exult in His salvation. For Moab shall be ignominiously trampled under foot, and if he tries to keep himself afloat, Yahweh will bring to nought all his clever and ingenious movements.

Isaiah 25:10. Moab: may be singled out as an example of Israel's enemies in general, but more probably is intended literally, though to what historical situation the catastrophe belongs is quite uncertain. Cf. Isaiah 15 f., Jeremiah 48, Ezekiel 25:8; Zephaniah 2:8.

Isaiah 25:11 a. The LXX has no reference to swimming; the spreading forth of the hands may originally have referred to Moab's vain prayers.

Isaiah 25:12 is perhaps a variant of Isaiah 26:5.