ISAIAH 25 [†] O LORD,  j you are my God;

 k I will exalt you; I will praise your name,

for you have done wonderful things,

 l plans formed of old, faithful and sure.

2[†] For you have made the city  m a heap,

the fortified city a ruin;

the foreigners’ palace is a city no more;

it will never be rebuilt.

3[†]  n Therefore strong peoples will glorify you;

cities of ruthless nations will fear you.

4[†]  o For you have been a stronghold to the poor,

a stronghold to the needy in his distress,

 p a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat;

 q for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,

5  r like heat in a dry place.

You subdue the noise of the foreigners;

as heat by the shade of a cloud,

so the song of the ruthless is put down.

6[†]  s On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples

a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine,

 t of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.

7[†] And he will swallow up  s on this mountain

the covering that is cast over all peoples,

 u the veil that is spread over all nations.

8[^][†]  v He will swallow up death forever;

and  w the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces,

and  x the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth,

 y for the LORD has spoken.

9[†] It will be said on that day,

“Behold, this is our God;  z we have waited for him, that he might save us.

This is the LORD; we have waited for him;

 a let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”

10[†] For the hand of the LORD will rest  s on this mountain,

and  b Moab shall be trampled down in his place,

as straw is trampled down in a dunghill. [1]

11[†]  c And he will spread out his hands in the midst of it

as a swimmer spreads his hands out to swim,

but the LORD  d will lay low his pompous pride together with the skill [2] of his hands.

12[†] And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down,

lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.