Isaiah 25

1 Yahweh, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things, [even] counsels of old, in faithfulness [and] truth.WEB — Isaiah 25:1

2 For you have made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.WEB — Isaiah 25:2

3 Therefore shall a strong people glorify you; a city of awesome nations shall fear you.WEB — Isaiah 25:3

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 awesome ones is as a storm against the wall.WEB — Isaiah 25:4

5 As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the awesome ones shall be brought low.WEB — Isaiah 25:5

6 In this mountain will Yahweh of Hosts make to all peoples 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.WEB — Isaiah 25:6

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.WEB — Isaiah 25:7

8 He has swallowed up death forever; and the Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Yahweh has spoken it.WEB — Isaiah 25:8

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.WEB — Isaiah 25:9

10 For in this mountain will the hand of Yahweh rest; and Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as straw is trodden down in the water of the dung-hill.WEB — Isaiah 25:10

11 He shall spread forth his hands in the midst of it, as he who swims spreads forth [his hands] to swim; but [Yahweh] will lay low his pride together with the craft of his hands.WEB — Isaiah 25:11

12 The high fortress of your walls has he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.WEB — Isaiah 25:12