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Isaiah 25

¹YHWH, you are my God!
I will exalt you!
I will praise your name!
For you have performed wonders,
Ancient counsels, true and firm.
²For you have turned a city into a pile of rubble,
A fortified town into a ruin,
A foreign palace into a city
That will never be rebuilt.
³So a strong people will glorify you,
A city of violent nations will fear you.
⁴For you have been a fortress for the poor,
a place of security for the needy in distress,
shelter from the rain,
shade from the heat,
when violent wind splashes against a wall.
⁵Like heat in a dry place, you will silence the raging of the strangers,
Like heat under the shadow of a cloud,
The song of the tyrants shall be humbled.
⁶And YHWH of hosts will make for all the peoples on this mountain,
A feast of the best produce, a feast of aged wine,
a feast garnished with marrow and fine wine.
⁷And he will destroy on this mountain the blanket,
the blanket that is over all the people,
And the veil that is covering all the nations.
⁸He will destroy death forever,
And the Lord YHWH will wipe the tears from every face,
And he will turn the shame of the people from upon the land,
Because YHWH has spoken.
⁹And it will be said in that day,
Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us.
This is YHWH, we have hoped for him,
and we will dance for joy and rejoice in his salvation.
¹⁰For YHWH's hand will rest on this mountain,
And he will trample down Moab under it,
As one tramples a pile of straw in a dungheap.
¹¹He will stretch out his hands in its center,
as a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim,
but he will make its pride fall with the movement of his hand.
¹²He's toppled the high fortifications of your walls,
laid them low,
brought them to the ground,
into the dust.

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