Isaiah 25

O Lord, thou art my God;

^aI will exalt thee, I will praise thy name;

For ^cthou hast done ^cdwonderful things;

Thy counsels ^eof old are faithfulness and truth.

²For thou hast made ^fof a city a heap;

Of ^fa defenced city ^ga ruin:

^hA palace of strangers ⁱto be no city;

It shall never be built.

³Therefore shall the strong people ^jglorify thee,

^kThe city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.

⁴For thou hast been ^la strength to the poor,

A strength to the needy in his distress,

^mA refuge from the storm, ^mna shadow from the heat,

When the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

⁵Thou shalt bring down ^othe noise of strangers,

As the heat in ^pa dry place;

Even the heat ^qwith the shadow of a cloud:

^rThe branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

⁶And in ^sthis mountain shall ^tthe Lord of hosts make ^uunto all people

^tA feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees,

Of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.

⁷And he will destroy in ^sthis mountain

The face of the covering cast ^tover all people,

And ^uthe vail that is spread ^tover all nations.

^8vHe will swallow up death in ^wvictory;

And ^xthe Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces;

And the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth:

^yFor the Lord hath spoken it.

⁹And it shall be said ^zin that day,

Lo, this is our God;

^aWe have waited for him, and he will save us:

This is the Lord; ^awe have waited for him,

^bWe will be glad and rejoice ^bin his salvation.

¹⁰For in ^sthis mountain shall the hand of the Lord ^crest,

And ^dMoab shall be trodden down ^eunder him,

Even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.

¹¹And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them,

As he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim:

And he shall bring down their pride

Together with the spoils of their hands.

¹²And the fortress of ^gthe high fort of thy walls shall he ^gbring down,

^gLay low, and ^gbring to the ground, even to the dust.

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