Isaiah 25

Easy-to-Read Version

A Song of Praise to God

25 Lord, you are my God.
    I honor you and praise your name,
because you did amazing things.
    The words you said long ago are completely true;
    everything happened exactly as you said it would.
²And you destroyed the city that was protected by strong walls.
    Now it is only a pile of rocks.
The foreign palace has been destroyed.
    It will never be rebuilt.
³That is why powerful nations will honor you.
    Powerful people from strong cities will fear you.
⁴You have been a safe place for poor people in trouble.
    You are like a shelter from floods and shade from the heat
    when powerful men attack.
They are like rain streaming down the walls
    that protect us from the storm.
⁵Like the heat of summer in a dry land,
    the angry shouts of those foreigners brought us to our knees.
But like a thick cloud that blocks the summer heat,
    you answered their challenge.

God’s Banquet for His Servants

⁶The Lord All-Powerful will give a feast for all the people on this mountain. At the feast, there will be the best foods and wines. The meat will be good and tender, the wine pure and clear.

⁷But now there is a veil covering all nations and people. This veil is called “death.” ⁸But death will be destroyed forever.^[a] And the Lord God will wipe away every tear from every face. In the past, all of his people were sad, but God will take away that sadness from the earth. All of this will happen because the Lord said it would.

⁹At that time people will say,
    “Here is our God!
He is the one we have been waiting for.
    He has come to save us.
We have been waiting for our Lord.
    So we will rejoice and be happy when he saves us.”
¹⁰The Lord’s power is on this mountain,
    and Moab^[b] will be defeated.
The Lord will trample the enemy
    like someone walking on straw in a pile of waste.
¹¹They will reach out their arms to escape
    like someone trying to swim.
But their pride will sink
    with each stroke they take.
¹²He will destroy their high walls and safe places.
    He will throw them down into the dust on the ground.

Footnotes

Isaiah 25:8 But death … forever Some Greek versions have “But death will be swallowed in victory.”
Isaiah 25:10 Moab Or “the enemy.” This name is like a Hebrew word meaning “enemy.”