Isaiah 25

Salvation and Judgment on That Day

25Yahweh, You are my God; ^p

I will exalt You. I will praise Your name,

for You have accomplished wonders,

plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.

²For You have turned the city into a pile of rocks, ^q

a fortified city, into ruins;

the fortress of barbarians ^ris no longer a city;

it will never be rebuilt.

³Therefore, a strong people will honor You.

The cities of violent nations will fear You.

⁴For You have been a stronghold for the poor,

a stronghold for the needy ^sperson in his distress,

a refuge from the rain, a shade from the heat. ^t

When the breath of the violent

is like rain against a wall,

⁵like heat in a dry land,

You subdue the uproar of barbarians.

As ^uthe shade of a cloud cools the heat of the day,

so He silences the song of the violent.

⁶The Lord of Hosts will prepare a feast ^v

for all the peoples on this mountain ^wx—

a feast of aged wine, choice meat, ^yfinely aged wine.

⁷On this mountain

He will destroy the burial shroud,

the shroud over all the peoples,

the sheet covering all the nations; ^z

⁸He will destroy death forever. ^a

The Lord God will wipe away the tears

from every face ^b

and remove His people’s disgrace ^c

from the whole earth,

for the Lord has spoken.

⁹On that day it will be said,

“Look, this is our God;

we have waited for Him, and He has saved us.

This is the Lord; we have waited for Him.

Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.” ^d

¹⁰For the Lord’s power will rest on this mountain.

But Moab ^ewill be trampled in his place ^f

as straw is trampled in a dung pile.

¹¹He will spread out his arms in the middle of it,

as a swimmer spreads out his arms to swim.

His pride will be brought low,

along with the trickery of his hands. ^g

¹²The high-walled fortress will be brought down,

thrown to the ground, to the dust. ^h