Isaiah 25 Free Bible Version
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1 Lord, you are my God. I will honor you and praise who you are, because you have done wonderful things that you planned long ago. You are faithful and trustworthy!
1 Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.
2 You have turned the city into a pile of rubble; the fortified town is now a ruin; the foreigner palace is gone. It is no longer a city and it will never be rebuilt.
2 For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.
3 Because of this powerful nations will honor you; cities of brutal nations will be in awe of you.
3 Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you.
4 But you have protected the poor and needy when they were in trouble, you shielded them from storms and shaded them from the heat. For the actions of brutal people are like rain beating against a wall,
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 dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.
5 like heat in a desert. You end the noisy uprising of foreigners. In the same way that a cloud's shadow cools down the heat of the day, so the song sung by brutal people is silenced.
5 As the heat in a dry place you will bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low.
6 On this mountain the Lord Almighty will prepare a feast for all nations, a lavish feast of aged wines, rich food, and the best meat.
6 In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.
7 On this mountain he will destroy the veil that covers all the nations, the sheet that is over everyone.
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.
8 He will destroy death forever. The Lord God will wipe away all tears, and everywhere he will take away the humiliation suffered by his people. The Lord has spoken.
8 He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.
9 At that time his people will say, “Look! This is our God; we have trusted in him and he has saved us! This is the Lord we have been looking for. Now we can be happy and celebrate the salvation he brings!”
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!”
10 The Lord's hand of protection will be on this mountain. But the Moabites will be trampled underfoot like straw into the water of a manure pit.
10 For Yahweh’s hand will rest in this mountain. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.
11 They will reach out their hands to try and save themselves, like swimmers using their hands to swim, but their pride will be humbled however much they thrash about.
11 He will spread out his hands in the middle of it, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands.
12 Moab, he will demolish your fortress with the high walls, bringing it down to the ground, into the dust.
12 He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
Cross references (12)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Exodus 15:2; Psalm 118:28; Numbers 23:19; Psalm 98:1; Psalm 40:5
- 2 Isaiah 17:1; Isaiah 13:22; Isaiah 25:12; Isaiah 21:9; Deuteronomy 13:16
- 3 Psalm 46:10–11; Zechariah 14:9; Zechariah 14:16; Isaiah 49:23–26; Isaiah 60:10–14
- 4 Zephaniah 3:12; James 2:5; Isaiah 32:2; Matthew 7:25–27; Job 5:15–16
- 5 Isaiah 54:15–17; Isaiah 49:10; Isaiah 10:32–34; Ezekiel 32:18–32; Isaiah 13:11
- 6 Matthew 8:11; Psalm 63:5; Jeremiah 31:12–13; Revelation 19:9; Zechariah 9:16–17
- 7 Ephesians 4:18; Isaiah 60:1–3; Matthew 27:51; 2 Corinthians 3:13–18; Hebrews 10:19–21
- 8 Revelation 21:4; Revelation 7:17; 1 Corinthians 15:54; Hosea 13:14; 1 Corinthians 15:26
- 9 Psalm 27:14; Genesis 49:18; Micah 7:7; Isaiah 26:8–9; Revelation 1:7
- 10 Isaiah 18:4; Amos 2:1–3; Jeremiah 48:2; Zephaniah 3:15–17; Zephaniah 2:9
- 11 Isaiah 16:6; Isaiah 5:25; Isaiah 14:26; Isaiah 2:11; Isaiah 16:14
- 12 Revelation 18:21; Isaiah 26:5; Isaiah 14:23; Isaiah 15:1; Jeremiah 51:58
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
… who [was born] of the Virgin Mary, who also suffered, in whom too we trust, and whom we love; as Esaias says: "And they shall say in that day, Behold our Lord God, in whom we have trusted, and we have rejoiced in our salvation;" and Peter says in his Epistle: "Whom, not seeing, ye love; in whom, though now …
For Death prevailed and devoured; and again, God wiped away every tear from off every face.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Just as Esaias the prophet says, "Death devoured when it had prevailed." And again, "God has wiped away every tear from every face." Thus that former life is expelled, because it was not given by the Spirit, but by the breath.
But though in former times death was mighty and devoured, at the holy Laver of regeneration God has wiped away every tear from off all faces.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)