Old Testament · Prophets

Isaiah chapter 25

Yahweh, you are my God. I will , I will praise your name— because you have done incredible things, plans laid out long ago, .Because you have turned a city into a pile of rubble, a into ruins. The foreigners’ stronghold is a city no more— it will never be rebuilt.So the will honor you, the cities of violent peoples will of you.Because you have been a for the , a shelter for the poor in their distress, a refuge from the storm, shade from the heat. When the breath of the ruthless is like a winter storm against a wall,like heat in a dry land, you the uproar of foreigners. As shade from a cloud cools the heat, so the of the ruthless is hushed.On , will prepare a for all peoples— a banquet of rich food, a banquet of , the finest cuts, the purest vintages.And on this mountain he will destroy the that covers all peoples, the spread over all nations.He will — . The Lord Yahweh will from every face. He will remove the of his people from the whole earth. Yahweh has spoken.And on that day it will be said: “Look — this is our God! We for him, and he us. This is Yahweh! We waited for him. Let us and celebrate his rescue!”For Yahweh’s on this mountain. But will be trampled down where it stands, like straw crushed into a manure pile.They will spread out their hands in it like a swimmer spreading hands to swim— but Yahweh will bring down their along with the skill of their hands.The high walls of your — he will bring them down, lay them low, throw them to the ground, into the .