Esias 25

1 O Lord God, I will glorify thee, I will sing to thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things, [even] an ancient [and] faithful counsel. So be it.

YHWH, you are my God. I will exalt you. I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.

2 For thou hast made cities a heap, [even] cities [made] strong that their foundations should not fall: the city of ungodly men shall not be built for ever.

For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of the insolent is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.

3 Therefore shall the poor people bless thee, and cities of injured men shall bless thee.

Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you.

4 For thou hast been a helper to every lowly city, and a shelter to them that were disheartened by reason of poverty: thou shalt deliver them from wicked men: [thou hast been] a shelter of them that thirst, and a refreshing air to injured men.

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 dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

5 [We were] as faint-hearted men thirsting in Sion, by reason of ungodly men to whom thou didst deliver us.

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 dreaded ones will be brought low.

6 And the Lord of hosts shall make [a feast] for all the nations: on this mount they shall drink gladness, they shall drink wine:

In this mountain, YHWH of hosts will make all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of choice wines, of fat things full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.

7 they shall anoint themselves with ointment in this mountain. Impart thou all these things to the nations; for this is [God's] counsel upon all the nations.

He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

8 Death has prevailed and swallowed [men] up; but again the Lord God has taken away every tear from every face. He has taken away the reproach of [his] people from all the earth: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.

He has swallowed up death in victory. YHWH will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for YHWH has spoken it.

9 And in that day they shall say, behold our God in whom we have trusted, and he shall save us: this [is] the Lord; we have waited for him, and we have exulted, and will rejoice in our salvation.

It shall be said in that day, "Look, this is our God. We have waited for him, and he will save us. This is YHWH. We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation."

10 God will give rest on this mountain, and the country of Moab shall be trodden down, as they tread the floor with waggons.

For in this mountain the hand of YHWH will rest. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in a dunghill.

11 And he shall spread forth his hands, even as he also brings down [man] to destroy [him]: and he shall bring low his pride [in regard to the thing] on which he has laid his hands.

He will spread out his hands in its midst, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands.

12 And he shall bring down the height of the refuge of the wall, and it shall come down even to the ground.

He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.