Thanksgiving
1 Yahweh, you are my God; I exalt you and praise your name, for you have
done wonderful things, faithful and true, planned long ago.
2 You have made the city a heap, the massively defended city a ruin. The
bastion of foreign domination is a city no more, nor will it ever be
rebuilt.
3 Therefore a strong people glorifies you; the head of a great nation
holds you in awe.
4 For you have been a refuge to the poor, a haven to the needy in time
of distress, a harbor in the storm, a shade from the heat.
For the blast from the ruthless is like an icy storm,
5 like heat in a dry place. You silence the noise of foreigners; you
subdue the singing of the despot and the proud.
6 On this mountain Yahweh Sa ba oth will prepare for all peoples a feast
of rich food and choice wines, meat full of marrow, fine wine strained.
7 On this mountain he will destroy the pall cast over all peoples, this
very shroud spread over all na tions,
8 and death will be no more. The Lord Yahweh will wipe away the tears
from all cheeks and eyes; he will take away the humiliation of his
people all over the world:
for Yahweh has spoken.
9 On that day you will say: This is our God. We have waited for him to
save us, let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
10 For on this mountain the hand of Yahweh rests.
Moab instead will be trodden down, as straw trodden down on a dunghill.
11 He will stretch forth his hands there, as a swimmer spreads out his
hands to swim. But Yahweh will strike down their pride together with
their falsehood.
12 He will raze the high-walled fortress; he will level it to the
ground, as dust.
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Comments Isaiah, Chapter 25
• 25.1 Chapters 25 and 26:1-6: a thanksgiving to Yahweh who has done
away with the presence of the oppressor. His citadel, installed, it
would seem, in Jerusalem itself had been completely destroyed. Stanza
25:6-9 recalls that this victory is only one stage: the great hope is
ˇ°the banquet of the electˇ± after the judgment when God will destroy
death. John will use these images in Rev 7:17 and 21:4.