ISAIAH 25 (NIV)
- O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done marvelous things, things planned long ago.
- You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin, the foreigner's stronghold a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.
- Therefore strong peoples will honor you; cities of ruthless nations will revere you.
- You have been a refuge for the poor, a refuge for the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like a storm driving against a wall
- and like the heat of the desert. You silence the uproar of foreigners; as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is stilled.
- On this mountain the Lord Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine - the best of meats and the finest of wines.
- On this mountain he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all antions;
- he will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove the disgrace of his people from the earth. The Lord has spoken.
- In that day they will say, "Surely this is our God; we trusted in him, and he saved us. This is the Lord, we trusted in him; let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation."
- The hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain; but Moab will be trampled under him as straw is trampled down in the manure.
- They will spread out their hands in it, as a swimmer spreads otu his hands to swim. God will bring down their pride despite the cleverness of their hands.
- He will bring down your high fortified walls and lay them low; he will bring them down to the ground, to the very dust.
