Isaiah, starting at chapter 25
{25:1} Yahweh, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your
name; for you have done wonderful things, [even] counsels of old, in
faithfulness [and] truth. {25:2} For you have made of a city a heap,
of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city; it
shall never be built. {25:3} Therefore shall a strong people glorify
you; a city of awesome nations shall fear you. {25:4} For you have
been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his
distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the
blast of the awesome ones is as a storm against the wall. {25:5} As
the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise of strangers; as
the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the awesome ones shall
be brought low. {25:6} In this mountain will Yahweh of Hosts make to
all peoples 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. {25:7}
He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that
covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.
{25:8} He has swallowed up death forever; and the Lord Yahweh will
wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people
will he take away from off all the earth: for Yahweh has spoken it.
{25:9} It shall be said in that day, Behold, this is our God; we have
waited for him, and he will save us: this is Yahweh; we have waited
for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. {25:10} For in
this mountain will the hand of Yahweh rest; and Moab shall be trodden
down in his place, even as straw is trodden down in the water of the
dung-hill. {25:11} He shall spread forth his hands in the midst of it,
as he who swims spreads forth [his hands] to swim; but [Yahweh] will
lay low his pride together with the craft of his hands. {25:12} The
high fortress of your walls has he brought down, laid low, and brought
to the ground, even to the dust.
{26:1} In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: we
have a strong city; salvation will he appoint for walls and bulwarks.
{26:2} Open you the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps faith
may enter in. {26:3} You will keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose]
mind [is] stayed [on you]; because he trusts in you. {26:4} Trust in
Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock. {26:5} For
he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city: he lays
it low, he lays it low even to the ground; he brings it even to the
dust. {26:6} The foot shall tread it down; even the feet of the poor,
and the steps of the needy. {26:7} The way of the just is uprightness:
you that are upright do direct the path of the just. {26:8} Yes, in
the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you; to your
name, even to your memorial [name], is the desire of our soul. {26:9}
With my soul have I desired you in the night; yes, with my spirit
within me will I seek you earnestly: for when your judgments are in
the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. {26:10}
Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness;
in the land of uprightness will he deal wrongfully, and will not see
the majesty of Yahweh. {26:11} Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet
they don't see: but they shall see [your] zeal for the people, and be
disappointed; yes, fire shall devour your adversaries. {26:12} Yahweh,
you will ordain peace for us; for you have also worked all our works
for us. {26:13} Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had
dominion over us; but by you only will we make mention of your name.
{26:14} [They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased,
they shall not rise: therefore have you visited and destroyed them,
and made all memory of them to perish. {26:15} You have increased the
nation, O Yahweh, you have increased the nation; you are glorified;
you have enlarged all the borders of the land. {26:16} Yahweh, in
trouble have they visited you; they poured out a prayer [when] your
chastening was on them. {26:17} Like as a woman with child, who draws
near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs;
so we have been before you, Yahweh. {26:18} We have been with child,
we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have
not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants
of the world fallen. {26:19} Your dead shall live; my dead bodies
shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew
is [as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
{26:20} Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your
doors about you: hide yourself for a little moment, until the
indignation be past. {26:21} For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of
his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:
the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her
slain.
{27:1} In that day Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword
will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked
serpent; and he will kill the monster that is in the sea. {27:2} In
that day: A vineyard of wine, sing you to it. {27:3} I Yahweh am its
keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it
night and day. {27:4} Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and
thorns were against me in battle! I would march on them, I would burn
them together. {27:5} Or else let him take hold of my strength, that
he may make peace with me; [yes], let him make peace with me. {27:6}
In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and bud;
and they shall fill the surface of the world with fruit. {27:7} Has he
struck them as he struck those who struck them? or are they slain
according to the slaughter of those who were slain by them? {27:8} In
measure, when you send them away, you do contend with them; he has
removed [them] with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
{27:9} Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and
this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the
stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in sunder, [so
that] the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more. {27:10} For
the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken,
like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie
down, and consume the branches of it. {27:11} When the boughs of it
are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set
them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he who
made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them
will show them no favor. {27:12} It shall happen in that day, that
Yahweh will beat off [his fruit] from the flood of the River to the
brook of Egypt; and you shall be gathered one by one, you children of
Israel. {27:13} It shall happen in that day, that a great trumpet
shall be blown; and they shall come who were ready to perish in the
land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt; and
they shall worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
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