Salvation and Judgment on That Day
25 Yahweh, You are my God;(A)
I will exalt You. I will praise Your name,
for You have accomplished wonders,
plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.
2 For You have turned the city into a pile of rocks,(B)
a fortified city, into ruins;
the fortress of barbarians(C) is no longer a city;
it will never be rebuilt.
3 Therefore, a strong people will honor You.
The cities of violent nations will fear You.
4 For You have been a stronghold for the poor,
a stronghold for the needy(D) person in his distress,
a refuge from the rain, a shade from the heat.(E)
When the breath of the violent
is like rain against a wall,
5 like heat in a dry land,
You subdue the uproar of barbarians.
As[a] the shade of a cloud cools the heat of the day,
so He silences the song of the violent.
6 The Lord of Hosts will prepare a feast(F)
for all the peoples on this mountain[b](G)—
a feast of aged wine, choice meat,[c] finely aged wine.
7 On this mountain
He will destroy the burial shroud,
the shroud over all the peoples,
the sheet covering all the nations;(H)
8 He will destroy death forever.(I)
The Lord God will wipe away the tears
from every face(J)
and remove His people’s disgrace(K)
from the whole earth,
for the Lord has spoken.
9 On 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.”(L)
10 For the Lord’s power will rest on this mountain.
But Moab(M) will be trampled in his place[d]
as straw is trampled in a dung pile.
11 He 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.(N)
12 The high-walled fortress will be brought down,
thrown to the ground, to the dust.(O)
Footnotes
- Isaiah 25:5 Lit In
- Isaiah 25:6 = Mount Zion
- Isaiah 25:6 Lit wine, fat full of marrow
- Isaiah 25:10 Or trampled under Him
Cross references
- 25:1 : Ex 15:2; Ps 118:28; Is 7:13; 44:17
- 25:2 : Is 17:1; 26:5
- 25:2 : Col 3:11
- 25:4 : Mt 11:29
- 25:4 : Is 4:6; 32:2
- 25:6 : Is 24:23; Rv 19:9
- 25:6 : Is 2:2-4
- 25:7 : 2Co 3:15-16; Eph 4:18
- 25:8 : Hs 13:14; 1Co 15:54; Rv 21:4
- 25:8 : Is 30:19; 35:10; 51:11; 65:19; Rv 7:17; 21:4
- 25:8 : Ps 89:50-51; Is 51:7; 54:4; Mt 5:11; 1Pt 4:14
- 25:9 : Is 35:1-2, 10; 66:10
- 25:10 : Nm 24:17; Is 15:1
- 25:11 : Is 2:10-12, 15-17; 16:6, 14
- 25:10-12 : Is 26:5-6