Isaiah 25

Common English Bible

Rejoicing in God’s salvation

25 Lord, you are my God.
I will exalt you; I will praise your name,
    for you have done wonderful things,
        planned long ago, faithful and sure.
²You have turned the city into rubble,
    the fortified town into a ruin,
    the fortress of foreigners into a city no more,
    never to be rebuilt.
³Therefore, strong people will glorify you;
    the towns of tyrant nations will fear you.
⁴You have been a refuge for the poor,
    a refuge for the needy in distress,
    a hiding place from the storm,
    a shade from the heat.
When the breath of tyrants is like a winter^[a] storm
⁵    or like heat in the desert,
    you subdue the roar of foreigners.
Like heat shaded by a cloud,
    the tyrants’ song falls silent.

⁶On this mountain,
    the Lord of heavenly forces will prepare for all peoples
        a rich feast, a feast of choice wines,
        of select foods rich in flavor,
        of choice wines well refined.
⁷He will swallow up on this mountain the veil that is veiling all peoples,
    the shroud enshrouding all nations.
⁸He will swallow up death^[b] forever.
The Lord God will wipe tears from every face;
    he will remove his people’s disgrace from off the whole earth,
        for the Lord has spoken.
⁹They will say on that day,
“Look! This is our God,
    for whom we have waited—
    and he has saved us!
This is the Lord, for whom we have waited;
    let’s be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”
¹⁰    The Lord’s hand will indeed rest on this mountain.

Moab will be trampled down
    as straw is trampled into manure.
¹¹When in it they spread out their hands
    as swimmers spread out their hands to swim,
    God will lay low their pride, even by the efforts of their hands.
¹²The fortified towers of their^[c] walls
    will be thrown down, will be leveled,
    will be brought down to the earth, to the dust.