1 O YHWH, You [are] my God, I exalt You, I confess Your Name, || For You have done a wonderful thing, || Counsels of old, steadfastness, O steadfast One. 2 For You made of a city a heap, || Of a fortified city a ruin, || A high place of strangers from [being] a city, || It is not built for all time. 3 Therefore a strong people honors You, || A city of the terrible nations fears You. 4 For You have been a stronghold for the poor, || A stronghold for the needy in his distress, || A refuge from storm, a shadow from heat, || When the spirit of the terrible [is] as a storm—a wall. 5 As heat in a dry place, || You humble the noise of strangers, || [As] heat with the shadow of a thick cloud, || The singing of the terrible is humbled. 6 And YHWH of Hosts has made, || For all the peoples in this mountain, || A banquet of fat things, || A banquet of preserved things, || Fat things full of marrow, || Preserved things—refined. 7 And He has swallowed up in this mountain || The face of the wrapping that is wrapped over all the peoples, || And of the covering that is spread over all the nations. 8 He has swallowed up death in victory, || And Lord YHWH has wiped [the] tear from off all faces, || And He turns aside the reproach of His people from off all the earth, || For YHWH has spoken. 9 And [one] has said in that day, “Behold, this [is] our God, || We waited for Him, and He saves us, || This [is] YHWH, we have waited for Him, || We are glad and rejoice in His salvation!” 10 For the hand of YHWH rests on this mountain, || And Moab is trodden down under Him, || As straw is trodden down on a dunghill. 11 And He spread out His hands in its midst, || As the swimmer spreads out to swim; And He has humbled his excellence || With the machinations of his hands. 12 And the fortress of the high place of your walls || He has bowed down—He has made low, || He has caused [it] to come to the earth—to dust.
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Isaiah 25 Literal Standard Version
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Cross references (12)
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- 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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… 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)