Isaiah 25

CHAPTER 25

Yahweh Will Swallow Up Death

¹O Yahweh, You are ^amy God;

I will exalt You, I will give thanks to Your name;

For You have ^bworked wonders,

^cCounsels formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.

²For You have made a city into a ^aheap,

A ^bfortified town into a ruin;

A ^cpalace of strangers is a city no more,

It will never be rebuilt.

³Therefore a strong people will ^aglorify You;

^bTowns of ruthless nations will fear You.

⁴For You have been a ^astrong defense for the poor,

A strong defense for the needy in his distress,

A ^brefuge from the storm, a shade from the heat;

For the breath of the ^cruthless

Is like a rain storm against a wall.

⁵Like heat in a dry land, You subdue the ^arumbling of strangers;

Like heat by the shadow of a cloud, the song of the ruthless is ¹silenced.

^6aAnd Yahweh of hosts will prepare a ¹lavish banquet for ^ball peoples on this mountain;

A banquet of ²aged wine, ³choice pieces with marrow,

And ⁴refined, aged wine.

⁷And on this mountain He will swallow up the ^1acovering which is over all peoples,

Even the veil which is ²stretched over all nations.

⁸He will ^aswallow up death for all time,

And Lord Yahweh will ^bwipe tears away from all faces,

And He will remove the ^creproach of His people from all the earth;

For Yahweh has spoken.

⁹And it will be said in that day,

“Behold, ^athis is our God in whom we have ^bhoped that ^cHe would save us.

This is Yahweh in whom we have hoped;

^dLet us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”

¹⁰For the hand of Yahweh will rest on this mountain,

And ^aMoab will be trodden down in his place

As straw is trodden down in the water of a manure pile.

¹¹And he will ^aspread out his hands in the middle of it

As a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim,

But Yahweh will ^blay low his lofty pride together with the trickery of his hands.

¹²The ^aunassailable fortifications of your walls He will bring down,

Lay low, and cast to the ground, even to the dust.