Isa 25 | NASB2020 | STEP | Lord , You are my God ; I will exalt You, I will give thanks to Your name ; For You have worked wonders , Plans formed long ago , with perfect faithfulness .

‏ Isaiah 25

Song of Praise for God’s Favor

1 Lord, You are ^amy God;
I will exalt You, I will give thanks to Your name;
For You have ^bworked wonders,
^cPlans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.
2 For You have turned a city into a ^dheap,
A ^efortified city into a ruin;
A ^fpalace of strangers is no longer a city,
It will never be rebuilt.
3 Therefore a strong people will ^gglorify You;
^hCities of ruthless nations will revere You.
4 For You have been a ⁱstronghold for the helpless,
A stronghold for the poor in his distress,
A ^jrefuge from the storm, a shade from the heat;
For the breath of the ^kruthless
Is like a rain storm against a wall.
5 Like heat in a dry land, You subdue the ^luproar of foreigners;
Like heat by the shadow of a cloud, the song of the ruthless is ^{▼▼Lit humbled}silenced.

6 ⁿNow the Lord of armies will prepare a ^{▼▼Lit feast of fat things; i.e., abundance}lavish banquet for ^pall peoples on this mountain;
A banquet of ^{▼▼Lit wine on the lees}aged wine, ^{▼▼Lit fat pieces}choice pieces with marrow,
And ^{▼▼Lit wine refined on the lees}refined, aged wine.
7 And on this mountain He will destroy the ^{▼▼Lit face of the covering} ^ucovering which is over all peoples,
The veil which is ^{▼▼Lit woven}stretched over all nations.
8 He will ^{▼▼I.e., destroy} ^xswallow up death for all time,
And the Lord ^{▼▼Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord}God will ^zwipe tears away from all faces,
And He will remove the ^aadisgrace of His people from all the earth;
For the Lord has spoken.
9 And it will be said on that day,
“Behold, ^abthis is our God for whom we have ^acwaited ^{▼▼Or and He saved us}that ^aeHe might save us.
This is the Lord for whom we have waited;
^afLet’s rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”
10 For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain,
And ^agMoab will be trampled down in his place
As straw is trampled down in the water of a manure pile.
11 And he will ^ahspread out his hands in the middle of it
As a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim,
But the Lord will ^ailay low his pride together with the trickery of his hands.
12 The ^ajunassailable fortifications of your walls He will bring down,
Lay low, and throw to the ground, to the dust.