Yesha`yahu, starting at chapter 25
{25:1} The LORD, 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 the LORD 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 GOD will wipe
away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he
take away from off all the [1>]eretz[<1]: for the LORD 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 the LORD; we have waited
for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his [2>]yeshu`ah[<2]. {25:10}
For in this mountain will the hand of the LORD rest; and Mo'av 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
[the LORD] 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 Yehudah:
we have a strong city; [1>]yeshu`ah[<1] 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
shalom, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on you]; because he trusts in you.
{26:4} Trust in the LORD forever; for in the LORD, the LORD, 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, the LORD,
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 [2>]eretz[<2], 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 the LORD. {26:11}
The LORD, 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} The LORD, you will ordain shalom for
us; for you have also worked all our works for us. {26:13} The LORD
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 LORD, you have
increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the
borders of the land. {26:16} LORD, 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,
LORD. {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 [3>]eretz[<3]; 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 [4>]eretz[<4] 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, the LORD comes forth out of his place to punish
the inhabitants of the [5>]eretz[<5] for their iniquity: the
[6>]eretz[<6] also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover
her slain.
{27:1} In that day the LORD with his hard and great and strong sword
will punish livyatan the swift serpent, and livyatan 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 the LORD 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 shalom with me; [yes], let him make shalom with me. {27:6}
In days to come shall Ya`akov take root; Yisra'el 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 Ya`akov 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 the LORD will beat off [his fruit] from the flood of
the River to the brook of Mitzrayim; and you shall be gathered one by
one, you children of Yisra'el. {27:13} It shall happen in that day,
that a great [1>]shofar[<1] shall be blown; and they shall come who
were ready to perish in the land of Ashshur, and those who were
outcasts in the land of Mitzrayim; and they shall worship the LORD in
the holy mountain at Yerushalayim.
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Footnotes:
[1] {25:8} earth
[2] {25:9} salvation
[1] {26:1} salvation
[2] {26:9} earth
[3] {26:18} earth
[4] {26:19} earth
[5] {26:21} earth
[6] {26:21} earth
[1] {27:13} trumpet
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