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like a hot wind drying up the desert,
you put down the uproar of foreigners.
It is like heat cooled by the shade of a cloud.
The song of the ruthless is silenced.

A Banquet for All Peoples

On this mountain
the Lord of Armies will prepare for all peoples
    a banquet of rich food,
    a banquet of aged wines,
    with the best cuts of meat,
    and with the finest wines.[a]
On this mountain
he will destroy the shroud that covers all peoples,
the burial cloth stretched over all nations.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 25:6 More literally a banquet of fat food, a banquet of wine dregs, fat food filled with marrow, and dregs that are filtered

    and like the heat of the desert.
You silence(A) the uproar of foreigners;(B)
    as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud,
    so the song of the ruthless(C) is stilled.

On this mountain(D) the Lord Almighty will prepare
    a feast(E) of rich food for all peoples,
a banquet of aged wine—
    the best of meats and the finest of wines.(F)
On this mountain he will destroy
    the shroud(G) that enfolds all peoples,(H)
the sheet that covers all nations;

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