Isaiah 25

Praise to God

25O Lord, You are my God.

^aI will exalt You,

I will praise Your name,

^bFor You have done wonderful things;

^cYour counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

²For You have made ^da city a ruin,

A fortified city a ruin,

A palace of foreigners to be a city no more;

It will never be rebuilt.

³Therefore the strong people will ^eglorify You;

The city of the ¹terrible nations will fear You.

⁴For You have been a strength to the poor,

A strength to the needy in his distress,

^fA refuge from the storm,

A shade from the heat;

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

⁵You will reduce the noise of aliens,

As heat in a dry place;

As heat in the shadow of a cloud,

The song of the terrible ones will be ²diminished.

⁶And in ^gthis mountain

^hThe Lord of hosts will make for ⁱall people

A feast of ³choice pieces,

A feast of ⁴wines on the lees,

Of fat things full of marrow,

Of well-refined wines on the lees.

⁷And He will destroy on this mountain

The surface of the covering cast over all people,

And ^jthe veil that is spread over all nations.

⁸He will ^kswallow up death forever,

And the Lord God will ^lwipe away tears from all faces;

The rebuke of His people

He will take away from all the earth;

For the Lord has spoken.

⁹And it will be said in that day:

“Behold, this is our God;

^mWe have waited for Him, and He will save us.

This is the Lord;

We have waited for Him;

ⁿWe will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.”

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

And ^oMoab shall be trampled down under Him,

As straw is trampled down for the refuse heap.

¹¹And He will spread out His hands in their midst

As a swimmer reaches out to swim,

And He will bring down their ^ppride

Together with the trickery of their hands.

¹²The ^qfortress of the high fort of your walls

He will bring down, lay low,

And bring to the ground, down to the dust.