Isaiah 25:2

A city "The city" - Nineveh, Babylon, Ar, Moab, or any other strong fortress possessed by the enemies of the people of God.

For the first מעיר meir , of a city, the Syriac and Vulgate read העיר hair , the city; the Septuagint and Chaldee read ערים arim , cities, in the plural, transposing the letters. After the second מעיר meir , a MS. adds לגל lagol , for a heap.

A palace of strangers "The palace of the proud ones" - For זרים zarim , strangers, MS. Bodl. and another read זדים zedim , the proud: so likewise the Septuagint; for they render it ασεβων here, and in Isaiah 25:5 , as they do in some other places: see Deuteronomy 18:20 , Deuteronomy 18:22 . Another MS. reads צרים tsarim , adversaries; which also makes a good sense. But זרים zarim , strangers, and זדים zedim , the proud, are often confounded by the great similitude of the letters ד daleth and ר resh . See Malachi 3:15 ; Malachi 4:1 ; Psalm 19:14 , in the Septuagint; and Psalm 54:5 , where the Chaldee reads זדים zedim , compared with Psalm 86:16 .