Isaiah 25
The Lord is praised for accomplishing miracles and being a refuge for the poor and oppressed. A strong city will be ruined and foreigners will be brought low, while the Lord will provide a feast for all peoples on the mountain. The Lord will also cast down death and take away the tears and disgrace of his people, and they will rejoice in his salvation. The hand of the Lord will rest on the mountain, and Moab will be trampled under him.
1O Lord, you are my God! I will exalt you, and I will confess your name. For you have accomplished miracles. Your plan, from antiquity, is faithful. Amen2For you have appointed a city as a tomb, a strong city for ruination, a house of foreigners: so that it may not be a city, and so that it may not be rebuilt forever3Concerning this, a strong people will praise you; a city with a robust people will fear you4For you have been the strength of the poor, the strength of the indigent in his tribulation, a refuge from the whirlwind, a shadow from the heat. For the spirit of the mighty is like a whirlwind striking against a wall5You will bring low the uprising of foreigners, just as heat brings thirst. And like heat under a torrential cloud, you will cause the offshoot of the strong to wither away6And the Lord of hosts will cause all the peoples on this mountain to feast on fatness, to feast on wine, a fatness full of marrow, a purified wine7And he will cast down violently, on this mountain, the face of the chains, with which all peoples had been bound, and the net, with which all nations had been covered8He will violently cast down death forever. And the Lord God will take away the tears from every face, and he will take away the disgrace of his people from the entire earth. For the Lord has spoken it9And they will say in that day: "Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us. This is the Lord! We have endured for him. We will exult and rejoice in his salvation.10For the hand of the Lord will rest upon this mountain. And Moab will be trampled under him, just as stubble is worn away by a wagon11And he will extend his hands under him, like a swimmer extending his hands to swim. And he will bring down his glory with a clap of his hands12And the fortifications of your sublime walls will fall, and be brought low, and be torn down to the ground, even to the dust
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