Isaiah 25

1 O LORD, You are my God! I will exalt You; I will praise Your name. For You have worked wonders—plans formed long ago—in perfect faithfulness.

2 Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.

3 Therefore, a strong people will honor You. The cities of ruthless nations will revere You.

4 For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,

5 like heat in a dry land. You subdue the uproar of foreigners. As the shade of a cloud cools the heat, so the song of the ruthless is silenced.

6 On this mountain the LORD of Hosts will prepare a lavish banquet for all the peoples, a feast of aged wine, of choice meat, of finely aged wine.

7 On this mountain He will swallow up the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations;

8 He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.

9 And in that day it will be said, “Surely this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He has saved us. This is the LORD for whom we have waited. Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”

10 For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.

11 He will spread out his hands within it, as a swimmer spreads his arms to swim. His pride will be brought low, despite the skill of his hands.

12 The high-walled fortress will be brought down, cast to the ground, into the dust.

1 ¶ O LORD, thou [art] my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful [things; thy] counsels of old [are] faithfulness [and] truth.

2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; [of] a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.

4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones [is] as a storm [against] the wall.

5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; [even] the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

6 ¶ And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.

7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.

8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken [it].

9 ¶ And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this [is] our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this [is] the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.

11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth [his hands] to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, [and] bring to the ground, [even] to the dust.

1 O LORD, thou art my God: I praise thee. I praise thy name, for thou doest wonders. Thy precepts of old are faithful and true.

2 For thou hast made the city a heap of stones, the strong city to lie in a heap, the palace of the strangers, that there shall be no more city, neither shall there be any more building.

3 Therefore a mighty nation honoureth thee: the cities of mighty nations fear thee.

4 For thou art the strength of the lowly, the strength of the poor in affliction, a fine refuge from the tempest, a shade from the heat when tyrants rage, as a tempest against a wall.

5 Thou hast humbled the stranger's fierceness, as the heat in a dry place; that the heat may destroy the vine of the tyrant, and the cloud may give shade.

6 And the LORD of hosts shall make all nations a fat banquet in this mountain, a banquet of pure wine, of fat, of marrow, of wine, wherein is no yeast.

7 And he shall put away the covering upon this mountain, that all nations may be covered; and the covering, that all the heathen may be covered.

8 For he shall swallow up death for ever. And the LORD GOD shall wipe away the tears from off all faces, and shall lift up the reproach of his people throughout all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.

9 In that day it shall be said, Behold, this is our God, in whom we wait, and he shall save us: this is the LORD, in whom we wait, that we may rejoice and be glad in his salvation.

10 For the hand of the LORD is upon this mountain Moab: but it shall be broken down under it, as straw is broken down, and as dung.

11 And he shall spread out his hands in the midst of them, as a swimmer spreadeth them out to swim; and shall make their glory low with the arms of his hands.

12 And bend the high fortress of your walls low, and cast it into the dust to the ground.