Isaiah 25
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O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for
thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
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For thou hast made of a city a heap; of a defensed city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no
city; it shall never be built.
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Therefore shall the strong people glorify
thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
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For thou hast been a strength to the
poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the
storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
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Thou shalt bring down the noise of
strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the
shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought
low.
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And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat
things; a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow,
of wines on the lees well refined.
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And he will destroy in this mountain the
face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is
spread over all nations.
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He will swallow up death in victory; 1
Cor. 15.54 and the Lord GOD will
wipe away tears from off all faces; Rev. 7.17 ; 21.4 and
the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth:
for the LORD hath spoken it.
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And it shall be said in that day, Lo,
this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us:
this is the LORD; we have waited for
him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
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For in this mountain shall the hand of
the LORD rest, and Moab Is. 15.1--16.14 · Jer. 48.1-47 · Ezek. 25.8-11 · Amos 2.1-3 · 2.8-11 shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden
down for the dunghill.
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And he shall spread forth his hands in
the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his
hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with
the spoils of their hands.
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And the fortress of the high fort of thy
walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.
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