Open English Translation ISA Chapter 25

25 Yes, Yahweh, you’re my god.

I will honour you and thank your name/reputation

because you’ve done incredible things,

planned long back in perfect faithfulness.

2 Yes, you can make a city into a heap of rubble,

or a fortified town into ruins.

You’ve destroyed some strangers’ fortresses—never to be rebuilt again.

3 So yes, strong people will honour you—

The towns in ruthless nations will fear you,

4 because you’ve been a safe place to be shelter for those who are distressed—

a shelter from the rain and a shade from the hot sun,

because the breath of ruthless people is like rain beating against a wall,

5 and like heat in a dry land.

You subdued the uproar from foreigners,

like the shade of a cloud reduces the heat.

He’ll quieten down the song of ruthless people.

6 Then Commander-in-chief Yahweh will hold a banquet of good things for all that people on that mountain.

There’ll be vintage wine and choice meat.

7 Then on that mountain, he’ll swallow up the bedsheet that’s covering all the peoples,

≈ and the web that’s woven over all the nations.

8 My master will permanently swallow death up.

Yahweh will wipe the tears away from every face.

He’s removed his people’s disgrace from all the earth, because Yahweh has spoken.[ref]

9 Then at the time it will be said, ‘Look, that’s our god.

We put our hope in him, and he saved us.

Yes, that’s Yahweh—we maintained our trust in him.

We’ll be happy and celebrate how he’s saved us.’

10 Yahweh’s hand rests on this mountain to secure it.

Moav will be trampled down like a heap of straw in a dung pile.[ref]

11 Yahweh will spread out his hands in the middle of it,

like a swimmer spreading his arms to swim,

and he’ll cancel their pride with the skill of his hands.

12 He’ll knock down your high fortress walls,

and Moav’s cities will be broken right down low.