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Isaiah 25
Lexham English Bible
Isaiah 25
Lexham English Bible
Praise for Salvation
25 Yahweh, you are my God; I will exalt you.
I will praise your name,
for you have done wonderful things,[a]
plans[b] of old,[c] in faithfulness, trustworthiness.
2 For you have made[d] the city a heap,
the fortified city a ruin,
the palace of foreigners is no longer[e] a city;
it will never[f] be rebuilt.
3 Therefore strong peoples will glorify you;
a city of ruthless nations, they will fear you.
4 For you have been a refuge to the poor,
a refuge to the needy in his distress,
a shelter from the rainstorm,
a shade from the heat.
For the breath of the ruthless was like a rainstorm against a wall,[g]
5 the noise of foreigners like heat in a dry land.
You subdued the heat with the shade of a cloud;
the song of the ruthless was silenced.
6 And on this mountain Yahweh of hosts will make for all peoples a rich feast,[h]
a feast of aged wines, fat filled with marrow, filtered aged wine.
7 And on this mountain he will destroy[i] the face of the shroud,
the shroud over all peoples,
and the woven covering over all nations.
8 He will destroy[j] death forever,
and the Lord Yahweh will wipe off the tears from all faces,
and he will remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth,
for Yahweh has spoken.
9 And one will say, on that day,
“Look! This is our God! We have waited for him and he saved us!
This is Yahweh; we waited for him!
Let us be glad,
and let us rejoice in his salvation.”
10 For the hand of Yahweh will rest on this mountain,
and Moab shall be trampled down under him
as a heap of straw is trampled down[k] in waters of[l] a dung heap.
11 And it[m] will spread out its hands in the midst of it,
just as the swimmer spreads out to swim,
and its pride will be brought low with the movement[n] of its hands.
12 And he will throw down the fortification of the high point of your walls;
he will bring it low;
he will send it[o] to the ground,
to the dust.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 25:1 Hebrew “thing”
- Isaiah 25:1 Hebrew “plan”
- Isaiah 25:1 Literally “from far away “
- Isaiah 25:2 Literally “placed”
- Isaiah 25:2 Literally “from”
- Isaiah 25:2 Literally “to eternity not”
- Isaiah 25:4 The same consonants with different vowels can be translated “winter rainstorm”
- Isaiah 25:6 Literally “feast of fat”
- Isaiah 25:7 Literally “engulf”
- Isaiah 25:8 Literally “engulf”
- Isaiah 25:10 Literally “the trampling down of a heap of straw”
- Isaiah 25:10 These words are in the written Hebrew text, but not in the reading tradition (Qere)
- Isaiah 25:11 Moab
- Isaiah 25:11 Meaning uncertain
- Isaiah 25:12 Literally “cause it to touch”
Isaiah 25
New International Version
Isaiah 25
New International Version
Praise to the Lord
25 Lord, you are my God;(A)
I will exalt you and praise your name,(B)
for in perfect faithfulness(C)
you have done wonderful things,(D)
things planned(E) long ago.
2 You have made the city a heap of rubble,(F)
the fortified(G) town a ruin,(H)
the foreigners’ stronghold(I) a city no more;
it will never be rebuilt.(J)
3 Therefore strong peoples will honor you;(K)
cities of ruthless(L) nations will revere you.
4 You have been a refuge(M) for the poor,(N)
a refuge for the needy(O) in their distress,
a shelter from the storm(P)
and a shade from the heat.
For the breath of the ruthless(Q)
is like a storm driving against a wall
5 and like the heat of the desert.
You silence(R) the uproar of foreigners;(S)
as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud,
so the song of the ruthless(T) is stilled.
6 On this mountain(U) the Lord Almighty will prepare
a feast(V) of rich food for all peoples,
a banquet of aged wine—
the best of meats and the finest of wines.(W)
7 On this mountain he will destroy
the shroud(X) that enfolds all peoples,(Y)
the sheet that covers all nations;
8 he will swallow up death(Z) forever.
The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears(AA)
from all faces;
he will remove his people’s disgrace(AB)
from all the earth.
The Lord has spoken.(AC)
9 In that day(AD) they will say,
“Surely this is our God;(AE)
we trusted(AF) in him, and he saved(AG) us.
This is the Lord, we trusted in him;
let us rejoice(AH) and be glad in his salvation.”(AI)
10 The hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain;(AJ)
but Moab(AK) will be trampled in their land
as straw is trampled down in the manure.
11 They will stretch out their hands in it,
as swimmers stretch out their hands to swim.
God will bring down(AL) their pride(AM)
despite the cleverness[a] of their hands.
12 He will bring down your high fortified walls(AN)
and lay them low;(AO)
he will bring them down to the ground,
to the very dust.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 25:11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
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