Isaiah · Young's Literal Translation
Isaiah 25 Young's Literal Translation
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1 O Jehovah, my God [art] Thou, I exalt Thee, I confess Thy name, For Thou hast done a wonderful thing, Counsels of old, stedfastness, O stedfast One.
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 For Thou didst make of a city a heap, Of a fenced city a ruin, A high place of strangers from [being] a city, To the age it is not built.
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 Therefore honour Thee do a strong people, A city of the terrible nations feareth Thee.
3 Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you.
4 For Thou hast 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.
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 As heat in a dry place, The noise of strangers Thou humblest, Heat with the shadow of a thick cloud, The singing of the terrible is humbled.
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 And made hath Jehovah of Hosts, For all the peoples in this mount, A banquet of fat things, a banquet of preserved things, Fat things full of marrow, preserved things refined.
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 And swallowed up hath He 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.
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 hath swallowed up death in victory, And wiped hath the Lord Jehovah, The tear from off all faces, And the reproach of His people He turneth aside from off all the earth, For Jehovah hath 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 And [one] hath said in that day, 'Lo, this [is] our God, We waited for Him, and He saveth us, This [is] Jehovah, we have waited for Him, We joy and rejoice in His salvation.'
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 For rest doth the hand of Jehovah on this mountain, And trodden down is Moab under Him, As trodden down is straw on a dunghill.
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 And he spread out his hands in its midst, As spread out doth the swimmer to swim; And He hath humbled his excellency With the machinations of his hands.
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 And the fortress of the high place of thy walls He hath bowed down — He hath made low, He hath caused [it] to come to the earth, — unto 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)