The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Isaiah 25
1 Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for
you have done wonderful things, things
planned long ago, in complete faithfulness
and truth.
2 For you have made a city into a heap,
a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of
strangers to be no city. It will never be
built.
3 Therefore a strong people will glorify
you. A city of awesome nations will fear
you.
4 For you have been a stronghold to
the poor, a stronghold to the needy in
his distress, a refuge from the storm, a
shade from the heat, when the blast of the
dreaded ones is like a storm against the
wall.
5 As the heat in a dry place you will bring
down the noise of strangers; as the heat
by the shade of a cloud, the song of the
dreaded ones will be brought low.
6 In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies
will make all peoples a feast of choice
meat,† a feast of choice wines, of choice
meat full of marrow, of well refined choice
wines.
7 He will destroy in this mountain the
surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all
nations.
8 He has swallowed up death forever!
The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears
fromoff allfaces. He willtake the reproach
of his people away from off all the earth,
for Yahweh has spoken it.
9 It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this
is our God! We have waited for him, and
he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have
waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice
in his salvation!”
10 For Yahweh’s hand will rest in this
mountain. Moab will be trodden down in his place,
even like straw is trodden down in the
water of the dunghill.
11 He will spread out his hands in the
middle of it, like one who swims spreads
out hands to swim, but his pride will be
humbled together with the craft of his
hands.
12 He has brought the high fortress of
your walls down, laid low, and brought to
the ground, even to the dust.