Isaiah 25

Song of Praise for God’s Favor

1O Lord, You are amy God;
I will exalt You, I will give thanks to Your name;
For You have bworked wonders,
cPlans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.
2For You have made a city into a dheap,
A efortified city into a ruin;
A fpalace of strangers is a city no more,
It will never be rebuilt.
3Therefore a strong people will gglorify You;
hCities of ruthless nations will revere You.
4For You have been a idefense for the helpless,
A defense for the needy in his distress,
A jrefuge from the storm, a shade from the heat;
For the breath of the kruthless
Is like a rain storm against a wall.
5Like heat in drought, You subdue the luproar of aliens;
Like heat by the shadow of a cloud, the song of the ruthless is
Lit humbled
silenced.

6 nThe Lord of hosts will prepare a
Lit feast of fat things; i.e. abundance
lavish banquet for pall peoples on this mountain;
A banquet of
Lit wine on the lees
aged wine,
Lit fat pieces
choice pieces with marrow,
And
Lit wine refined on the lees
refined, aged wine.
7And on this mountain He will swallow up the
Lit face of the covering
,
ucovering which is over all peoples,
Even the veil which is
Lit woven
stretched over all nations.
8He will wswallow up death for all time,
And the Lord
Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
God will ywipe tears away from all faces,
And He will remove the zreproach of His people from all the earth;
For the Lord has spoken.
9And it will be said in that day,
Behold, aathis is our God for whom we have abwaited that acHe might save us.
This is the Lord for whom we have waited;
adLet us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”
10For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain,
And aeMoab will be trodden down in his place
As straw is trodden down in the water of a manure pile.
11And he will afspread out his hands in the middle of it
As a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim,
But the Lord will aglay low his pride together with the trickery of his hands.
12The ahunassailable fortifications of your walls He will bring down,
Lay low and cast to the ground, even to the dust.

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